COMMUNISM IS FREE TIME FOR ALL and nothing more. Any political regime or mode of production that does not have as the ultimate goal of society the reduction of working hours in tandem with the satisfaction of basic human needs cannot be considered truly free. That is the the permanent goal, not something you try and just because you fail once, or10 times, you have to give it up. You have to try 500000, 10000000000, ∞ times. Otherwise, there will be absolutely nothing to distinguish human beings from wild animals.
#Marxism #Communism #FreeTime #Freedom: "Marxism is about leisure, not labour. The only good reason for being a socialist, apart from annoying people you don’t like, is that you don’t like to work. For Oscar Wilde, who was closer in this respect to Marx than to Morris, communism was the condition in which we would lie around all day in various interesting postures of jouissance, dressed in loose crimson garments, reciting Homer to one another and sipping absinthe. And that was just the working day.
There are problems with this vision, as there are with any ethics. Are all your powers to be realised? What about that obsessive desire to beat up Tony Blair? Or should one realise only those impulses that spring from the authentic core of the self? But by what criteria do we judge this? What if my self-realisation clashes with yours? And why should all-round expression beat devoting oneself to a single cause, like Alexei Navalny or Emma Raducanu? Do human capabilities really grow malevolent only by being alienated, lopsided or repressed? And what if we’re half in love with the powers that alienate and repress us, installed as they are inside the human subject rather than purely external to it?
Hegel and Marx have an answer of a kind to the problem of clashing self-fulfilments, which goes like this: realise only those capabilities which allow others to do the same. Marx’s name for this reciprocal self-realisation is ‘communism’."
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n08/terry-eagleton/where-does-culture-come-from
