Marx said that only those wh work should be able to freely take part in the communist society and its fruits, but what about the disabled and the mentally ill? Welfare is explained to be a bourg idea to extend the capitalist system, so what happens to those who are unable/need treatment before they can work in a communist society?
Marx said that only those wh work should be able to freely take part in the communist society and its fruits...
John Peterson
Luke Ross
Pretty bad idea for the future when many jobs will probably be automated to the point where many people can't work at all
Logan James
The end goal is to make labour fully automated, but that doesn't help the disabled today. It's pretty hard to find a proper answer to this in marx' works. I know he wasn't dumb enough to think handicapped people should do hard labour, of course he wasn't. But I can't find a proper solution to this
Easton Ortiz
Marx never said that. Lenin was the originator of that bitter reactionary quote.
Ian Cook
The reasonable answer is the same for any "public works" type of thing that isn't in working people's immediate interests but is obviously a good idea: people agree on how much to set aside for this and then do so. If there are questions of how much is needed, they figure it out (by trial and error if necessary).
Lenin wasn't the originator. It had been said long long before but you're right Lenin said it. Never heard of Marx saying it. In grade school I remember learning that John Smith said it in colonial VA. Looking it up just now, I see it's from Paul in the fucking Bible. Gotta say I didn't think my opinion of Lenin was gonna get any lower but there you go. Not for the bibilcal reference so much as quoting Paul.
Sebastian Ortiz
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Charles Baker
t. Marx
Robert Taylor
You would have to define what this "work" is
Ryder Wright
Simple. Those who do not work will not be in controls of the means of production or have any political agency. Their relief funds will be determined by those who are.
Aaron Sanders
goddamn I fucking hate how people take shit out of it's historical context then throw shit at it. Of course Lenin was going to use the quote "he who does not work shall not eat", not only is it in reference to the wider proletarian and peasant masses, and serves in context as a contrast between the parasitic bourgeois but also the people themselves were reactionary and the only semblance of literacy the majority had were bible verses, he who shall not work shall not eat is something that used to be relatable to everyone.
Did Lenin fucking starve cripples? lmao