I don’t think “I don’t like my job” is politically divisive. You don’t really get people up in arms about it unless you’re complaining about capitalism or work in general. Even boomers have their “I’d rather be fishing” meme about it.
I don’t think “I don’t like my job” is politically divisive.
This is absolutely a political statement. Your work and conditions are political and can be changed only through seizing control and unionization, both political actions.
With the division of labour, in which all these contradictions are implicit, and which in its turn is based on the natural division of labour in the family and the separation of society into individual families opposed to one another, is given simultaneously the distribution, and indeed the unequal distribution, both quantitative and qualitative, of labour and its products, hence property: the nucleus, the first form, of which lies in the family, where wife and children are the slaves of the husband. This latent slavery in the family, though still very crude, is the first property, but even at this early stage it corresponds perfectly to the definition of modern economists who call it the power of disposing of the labour-power of others. Division of labour and private property are, moreover, identical expressions: in the one the same thing is affirmed with reference to activity as is affirmed in the other with reference to the product of the activity.
Further, the division of labour implies the contradiction between the interest of the separate individual or the individual family and the communal interest of all individuals who have intercourse with one another. And indeed, this communal interest does not exist merely in the imagination, as the “general interest,” but first of all in reality, as the mutual interdependence of the individuals among whom the labour is divided. And finally, the division of labour offers us the first example of how, as long as man remains in natural society, that is, as long as a cleavage exists between the particular and the common interest, as long, therefore, as activity is not voluntarily, but naturally, divided, man’s own deed becomes an alien power opposed to him, which enslaves him instead of being controlled by him. For as soon as the distribution of labour comes into being, each man has a particular, exclusive sphere of activity, which is forced upon him and from which he cannot escape. He is a hunter, a fisherman, a herdsman, or a critical critic, and must remain so if he does not want to lose his means of livelihood; while in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic. This fixation of social activity, this consolidation of what we ourselves produce into an objective power above us, growing out of our control, thwarting our expectations, bringing to naught our calculations, is one of the chief factors in historical development up till now.
Marx. The German Ideology.
Tl:DR work under capitalism fucking sucks because it’s exploiting us and not fighting for your liberation is politically divisive
Because claiming to be “nonpolitical” continues to mean wishing to be willfully ignorant and comfortably within the realm of political norms you’re so used to that you just don’t notice them.
People have a lot to say about my position on something. Should i examine some of my underlying assumptions and unexamined opinions regarding this issue?
“I don’t like my job” is so political people bled and died to the american government for your right to not have to do it 80 hours a week as a 12 year old.
So we can’t post memes about … checks notes the general culture of our country?
So no memes about anything with literally any specifics.
You realize if you got your wish memses would just be “how many of yall like breathing”
Maybe you could point us to an example of an acceptable meme with no politics involved.
Earlier in this thread, I said:
I also clarified that it has to be contentious, in a way where people condemn each other for thinking differently.
Here are some non-political memes posted in this community in the past hour:
https://lemmy.ml/post/5184036
https://lemmy.ml/post/5185652
https://lemmy.ml/post/5185650
https://lemmy.ml/post/5186256
https://lemmy.ml/post/5186204
That’s 5 of the 6 memes posted in that timespan.
1 and 3 are pretty directly political lol
Here let me give you the codex.
When this person says “political” they mean “things I dont agree with”
I don’t think “I don’t like my job” is politically divisive. You don’t really get people up in arms about it unless you’re complaining about capitalism or work in general. Even boomers have their “I’d rather be fishing” meme about it.
This is absolutely a political statement. Your work and conditions are political and can be changed only through seizing control and unionization, both political actions.
Tl:DR work under capitalism fucking sucks because it’s exploiting us and not fighting for your liberation is politically divisive
Well by that logic, merely saying “I have a job” is a political statement.
Also I’m not reading all that, thank you.
Because claiming to be “nonpolitical” continues to mean wishing to be willfully ignorant and comfortably within the realm of political norms you’re so used to that you just don’t notice them.
spoiler
Ask yourself a simple question. What happens to someone that doesn’t have a job in our society?
smh these lemm.ee tankies aren’t participating in good faitherinos
Exactly you dweeb
Yes
You’d be so close if your attention span was longer than a goldfish.
Also you can’t talk shit about sonething and then admit you didn’t read it.
Also also were not libs so nobody is impressed by you refusing to interact with things that don’t already confirm your beliefs.
My notifications are full of Hexbear.
People have a lot to say about my position on something. Should i examine some of my underlying assumptions and unexamined opinions regarding this issue?
No, its the hexbears who are wrong
There comes a point where I can’t juggle conversations with 20 different people on the same topic and I have to step back instead of trying.
Yeah so shut the fuck up
I know how you feel ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
lot more where that came from.
“I don’t like my job” is so political people bled and died to the american government for your right to not have to do it 80 hours a week as a 12 year old.
First one is about technology and alienation under a capitalist mode of production, discussing work and leisure. That’s political.
Third one is about dating and advertisements online, which is related to sexual politics and commodification of sex work online. Political.