[PEN-L:28226] Re: WSJ reviews Marx 101

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Forstater, Mathew" wrote:
>
> Kropotkin proposed half a day in the field and half a day in the
> workshop as an antidote to many of the negative effects of the division
> of labor.
>
> Joanna wrote of back-breaking agricultural labor:
>
> >True, true. But who says that we have to have a world in which people
> have
> >to do this 8 hours a day for their whole lives?

Kropotkin is frightening. I spent two months operating a gear shaver,
and it took about 10 years for the last bits of steel in my hands to
work itself either out or in too deep to see. Four hours picking
cucumbers -- four hours handling hot covered steel rings covered in
hundreds of tiny daggers. :-(

I agree with Joanna of course -- but it's a long road to that world.

Carrol