Who does the unpleasant work in communism? - Productive Needs and the Danger of Rewards
Channel: Commonism
Date: 2023-03-15

In our book "Make Capitalism History" (2023) we present an alternative to capitalism and state socialism beyond money, wage labour, patriarchal division of work and centralised state planning. We discuss the left’s need to explore non-capitalist modes of production and the inability of green or socialist market economies to produce real social and ecological change. We discuss pros and cons of the traditional ideas of reform and revolution and develop an approach to societal transformation based on seed forms of commons practices and social movements.

The book can be downloaded for free online (a commons, yey): https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-14645-9

More information and contact options on our website: https://commonism.org/

Critic and questions very welcome! We will try our best to answer. 

00:00 Against Wage Labour
06:23 Concept of Human: moral communism, material re-organisation & productive needs
21:29 Possibilities: How to deal with unpopular tasks?
31:35 FAQ: Will people work enough? Can't we use some reward?