Are you so sure that a craftsman always feels good about working?
I'm not talking about the hippie weaver you refer to and who weaves because they want to weave, but the weaver who weaves because they need to earn money or to trade their wares in order to eat. There's must be days when the weaver has to weave in order to put bread on their table and their back hurts and they'd rather be sleeping or conversing with friends or drinking beer or making love.
Work in general is a drag. Now that may not be true for a philosopher who loves Marx and loves explaining Marx to others, but for example, I've taught English as a foreign language (which is a lot easier on the back than weaving) and it's a drag facing a room of hostile or apathetic teenagers who for the most part see the teacher as their enemy.
I think that Marxism in general romanticizes work.
Folks should have a listen to Leiter's discussion of Marx on the Elucidations podcast. He is impressively concise, nuanced but contained, and he makes some bracing observations about the relevance of Marx and his thought to our present situation. Recommended!
Are you so sure that a craftsman always feels good about working?
ReplyDeleteI'm not talking about the hippie weaver you refer to and who weaves because they want to weave, but the weaver who weaves because they need to earn money or to trade their wares in order to eat. There's must be days when the weaver has to weave in order to put bread on their table and their back hurts and they'd rather be sleeping or conversing with friends or drinking beer or making love.
Work in general is a drag. Now that may not be true for a philosopher who loves Marx and loves explaining Marx to others, but for example, I've taught English as a foreign language (which is a lot easier on the back than weaving) and it's a drag facing a room of
hostile or apathetic teenagers who for the most part see the teacher as their enemy.
I think that Marxism in general romanticizes work.
Folks should have a listen to Leiter's discussion of Marx on the Elucidations podcast. He is impressively concise, nuanced but contained, and he makes some bracing observations about the relevance of Marx and his thought to our present situation. Recommended!
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