“Humans Are Naturally Lazy, Greedy, and Violent”— Or Is That Just What Capitalism Wants Us to Believe?
>‘A cumulation of scientific evidence shows that their societies were not characterized by competition, inequality and oppression. These things are, rather, the product of history, and of rather recent history. The evidence comes from archaeological findings about patterns of human behaviour worldwide until only about five millennia ago, and from anthropological studies of societies in different parts of the world which remained organized along similar lines until the 19th and earlier part of the 20th century. […] Lee echoes the phrase used by Friedrich Engels in the 1880s to describe this state of affairs, ‘primitive communism’. The point is of enormous importance. Our species (modern humans, or Homo sapiens sapiens) is over one hundred millennia old. For 95% of this time it has not been characterized at all by many of the forms of behaviour ascribed to ‘human nature’ today. We have nothing built into our biology that makes present‐day societies the way that they are and our predicament as we face a new millennium cannot be blamed on it.’
The tendency to hoard is a reaction to insufficiency. The tendency towards laziness is a reaction to too much work, too plightful work, and generally people lacking control over their work. Capitalist apologists typically claim that without money or at least some other form of material reward, few if any would labour. This is false, and contrary to modern research. For instance, one of their most overused examples is janitorial labour; cleaning up disgusting messes, and sewer work specifically. Nonetheless, the reward, while not an object, should be obvious: the environment becomes cleaner and easier to use. The task is sometimes neglected under capitalism because some guests assume that they are disallowed from doing so, or they lack the instruments to solve it. Under world socialism, even if cleanup tasks could somehow not be automated, they could still be the responsibility of any or all folks rather than a few specialists.
Besides, with all of the troubles that capitalism causes, are a few dirty jobs truly good enough reasons to keep it?
See also:
- anarchistfaq.org
- github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/crash_co…
- youtube.com
- np.reddit.com
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@polen_ball It reminded me when I found so called "Socialism FAQ" and there were claims that "Ukraine is bad" and that Russia is "fighting neo-nazism in Ukraine". And the claim that Ukraine has no laws against Nazism is just bullshit github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/socialism_… t.co
“Humans Are Naturally Lazy, Greedy, and Violent”— Or Is That Just What Capitalism Wants Us to Believe? >‘A cumulation of scientific evidence shows that their societies were not characterized by competition, inequality and oppression. These things are, rather, the product of history, and of rather recent history. The evidence comes from archaeological findings about patterns of human behaviour worldwide until only about five millennia ago, and from anthropological studies of societies in different parts of the world which remained organized along similar lines until the 19th and earlier part of the 20th century. […] Lee echoes the phrase used by Friedrich Engels in the 1880s to describe this state of affairs, ‘primitive communism’. The point is of enormous importance. Our species (modern humans, or Homo sapiens sapiens) is over one hundred millennia old. For 95% of this time it has not been characterized at all by many of the forms of behaviour ascribed to ‘human nature’ today. We have nothing built into our biology that makes present‐day societies the way that they are and our predicament as we face a new millennium cannot be blamed on it.’ The tendency to hoard is a reaction to insufficiency. The tendency towards laziness is a reaction to too much work, too plightful work, and generally people lacking control over their work. Capitalist apologists typically claim that without money or at least some other form of material reward, few if any would labour. This is false, and contrary to modern research. For instance, one of their most overused examples is janitorial labour; cleaning up disgusting messes, and sewer work specifically. Nonetheless, the reward, while not an object, should be obvious: the environment becomes cleaner and easier to use. The task is sometimes neglected under capitalism because some guests assume that they are disallowed from doing so, or they lack the instruments to solve it. Under world socialism, even if cleanup tasks could somehow not be automated, they could still be the responsibility of any or all folks rather than a few specialists. Besides, with all of the troubles that capitalism causes, are a few dirty jobs truly good enough reasons to keep it? See also: - anarchistfaq.org - github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/crash_co… - youtube.com - np.reddit.com
I think its more no ones submitted a pr yet thumb-key#44
@frank4ment3 Aprendendo no Twitter e não com os textos do marxists.org originais em Alemão, Russo e Mandarim? Aliás... você me fez me lembrar desse compilado: github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/crash_cour… E claro, este site: resistir.info E este artigo: redsails.org