Anti-work is inherently reactionary. It tries to shift the blame away from capitalism and onto labor itself, that we shouldn’t oppose bourgeois labor relations but should oppose work as a whole. It also gives right-wingers an easy win since it makes “the left” look like buffoons who think you can abolish work, and fits into their stereotype of a lazy hippy leftist who refuses to get a job. You can’t reform a sub that is based on a reactionary premise from the get-go.
Yeah, r/antiwork is basically a roach motel for leftists. People there just moan about how terrible their conditions are, but don’t actually want to pursue any effective means of organization. It’s just politics of despair where people have no vision for how to improve things.
Most of the threads are spam about very rude and incompetent managers and the most common way disputes are resolved is by moving to a new job where the manager is less rude and incompetent.
This essay by bob black is pretty much the underpinning for it. It proposes “everlasting revelry” instead of people working lol. Really makes anarchists and anti work people look like spoiled toddlers who want to play instead of clean their room.
The whole ideology is deeply infantile. Antiwork would only make sense in the context of resisting capitalist oppression of the workers and channeling that energy towards organizing and seizing the means of production by the workers. A movement against work for the benefit of the capitalist class would be sensible. Instead, these people are rallying against the whole notion of work itself which turns the whole thing into a giant farce. The only positive I see here is that it’s disrupting capitalism and making it harder for US to operate as a country.
IMO, it is a very suspicious sub. It is the only left-wing themed sub that is allowed to reach the front page. After a long time in which no left-wing themed content ever reached the front page, suddenly numerous threads from “antiwork” appear every day.
It is filled with spam about very rude and incompetent managers and the most common way disputes are resolved is by moving to a new job where the manager is less rude and incompetent.
The bourgeoisie knows that there has to be some sort of controlled space where the working class can vent about how horrid capitalism is, they just make sure that the most accessible of those spaces are the ones with the least class consciousness
That’s right. Most of the biggest “leftist” reddit subs are just doomer venting spaces with no real life organization to try to make things better.
Marxists are really dense.
Considering that Lenin was none of what the poster attributed to him, I find that statement hilariously ironic.
It’s bizarre that many people have such strong opinions about something they know almost nothing about, and become furious when their views on things pretty much unrelated to their lives (like Lenin) are slightly disturbed
