Nine Theses for a Future Left

“Full employment,” like all indefinite growth of commercial production, will have been just a parenthesis in contemporary economic history. We have entered the era of the abolition of work. The fact that the crisis of capitalism gives it the form of a calamity should not lead us to forget that the abolition of work and the liberation of time are themes as ancient as work itself. In the sense in which we understand it today, work did not always exist: it appeared with capitalists and proletarians. Today it designates an activity that we do (1) for someone else's benefit; (2) in exchange for pay; (3) according to forms and schedules set by the one who pays us; (4) for ends we have not chosen ourselves

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