touch foxglove NOW Every social movement is comprised of two elements: the aspiration (what you want from the world) and the construction (how society must be structured in order for everyone to have the capability to have the aspiration). For instance, in the American revolution, the aspiration was freedom, and the construction was the Constitution.
r/antiwork was originally a subreddit of people that just had the aspiration of not working. As it got larger, and zoomers joined, there was pressure to make it into a social movement. The problem is that no one could create a construction that would attain the goal of "nobody works", so Marxism took over. The problem is that Marxism is a very pro-work ideology.
The problem is that to be alive requires effort. Even when not moving, your body is metabolizing, your heart is pumping, your lungs are breathing. All of this requires energy. The only human that does not constantly expend energy is a dead one. Therefore, if one person is lazy, they must exist as parasites on the non-lazy. (This is the antiwork aspiration). But if everyone is lazy, where does the food come from?
r/antiwork would be better off if it stopped trying to be a social movement and simply adgknowledged what we all already know: work sucks.
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This is too many wordswordswords. The real answer is that labor/production is inherently social (people don't grow food just for the sake of it, they grow it because there's a need for it) and so anyone railing against work in general is going to look like a narcissistic leech.
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They're just far too disconnected from those jobs that are essential to society, and also have lived in a post-scarcity bubble their whole life. Urban/suburban middle-upper middle class losers that have never faced any sort of real adversity in their life, so they think a 40 hr work week is slavery and that being misgendered is violence. They've never had to go hungry, or go without bussy for extended periods, the big softies.
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Antiwork can't even agree on what they are. There is always infighting about improving working conditions, abolishing work entirely, and sometimes communism.
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