Re: [ox] [krisis] Manifest gegen die Arbeit in englisch
- From: "geert lovink" <geert desk.nl>
- Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 12:51:34 +1000
Herzlichen Dank, alle, für das Material. Wird bestimmt benutzt. Geert
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From: "Karl Dietz" <karl.dietz gmx.de>
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Subject: [ox] [krisis] Manifest gegen die Arbeit in englisch
hi geert, hi all,
ergänzend zum link von stefan mz.
eventuell ist auch das relevant.
karl
cc list48. dort sind einige, die auch in der krisis-liste dabei waren,
die ende juni2003 wg. webspamming geschlossen wurde... :((
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Betreff: [krisis] Manifest gegen die Arbeit in englisch
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Betreff: Manifest gegen die Arbeit in englisch
Liebe Freundinnen, liebe Freunde,
die englische Übersetzung des Manifestes gegen die Arbeit ist fertig
(vielen Dank an die ÜbersetzerInnen!!!). Ihr könnt den Text auf der
Krisis-Homepage unter den fremdsprachigen Texten finden. Aufgrund der
Größe des Textes verschicke ich nur den 1. Abschnitt des Manifestes
zum Anlesen in dieser Mail mit.
Beste Grüße
Christian Höner
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Gruppe Krisis
Manifesto Against Labour
1. The rule of dead labour
A corpse rules society - the corpse of labour. All powers around the
globe formed an alliance to defend its rule: the Pope and the World
Bank, Tony Blair and Jörg Haider, trade unions and entrepreneurs,
German ecologists and French socialists. They don't know but one
slogan: jobs, jobs, jobs!
Whoever still has not forgotten what reflection is all about, will
easily realise the implausibility of such an attitude. The society
ruled by labour does not experience any temporary crisis; it
encounters its absolute limit. In the wake of the micro-electronic
revolution, wealth production increasingly became independent from
the actual expenditure of human labour power to an extent quite
recently only imaginable in science fiction. No one can seriously
maintain any longer that this process can be halted or reversed.
Selling the commodity labour power in the 21st century is as
promising as the sale of stagecoaches has proved to be in the 20th
century. However, whoever is not able to sell his or her labour power
in this society is considered to be "superfluous" and will be
disposed of on the social waste dump.
Those who do not work (labour) shall not eat! This cynical principle
is still in effect; all the more nowadays when it becomes hopelessly
obsolete. It is really an absurdity: Never before the society was
that much a labour society as it is now when labour itself is made
superfluous. On its deathbed labour turns out to be a totalitarian
power that does not tolerate any gods besides itself. Seeping through
the pores of everyday life into the psyche, labour controls both
thought and action. No expense or pain is spared to artificially
prolong the lifespan of the "labour idol". The paranoid cry for jobs
justifies the devastation of natural resources on an intensified
scale even if the destructive effect for humanity was realised a long
time ago. The very last obstacles to the full commercialisation of
any social relationship may be cleared away uncritically, if only
there is a chance for a few miserable jobs to be created. "Any job is
better than no job" became a confession of faith, which is exacted
from everybody nowadays.
The more it becomes obvious that the labour society is nearing its
end, the more forcefully this realisation is being repressed in
public awareness. The methods of repression may be different, but can
be reduced to a common denominator. The globally evident fact that
labour proves to be a self-destructive end-in-itself is stubbornly
redefined into the individual or collective failure of individuals,
companies, or even entire regions as if the world is under the
control of a universal idée fixe. The objective structural barrier of
labour has to appear as the subjective problem of those who were
already ousted.
To some people unemployment is the result of exaggerated demands, low-
performance or missing flexibility, to others unemployment is due to
the incompetence, corruption, or greed of "their" politicians or
business executives, let alone the inclination of such "leaders" to
pursue policies of "treachery". In the end all agree with Roman
Herzog, the ex-president of Germany, who said that "all over the
country everybody has to pull together" as if the problem was about
the motivation of, let us say, a football team or a political sect.
Everybody shall keep his or her nose to the grindstone even if the
grindstone got pulverised. The gloomy meta-message of such incentives
cannot be misunderstood: Those who fail in finding favour in the eyes
of the "labour idol" have to take the blame, can be written off and
pushed away.
Such a law on how and when to sacrifice humans is valid all over the
world. One country after the other gets broken under the wheel of
economic totalitarianism, thereby giving evidence for the one and
only "truth": The country has violated the so-called "laws of the
market economy". The logic of profitability will punish any country
that does not adapt itself to the blind working of total competition
unconditionally and without regard to the consequences. The great
white hope of today is the business rubbish of tomorrow. The raging
economical psychotics won't get shaken in their bizarre worldview,
though. Meanwhile, three quarters of the global population were more
or less declared to be social litter. One capitalist centre after the
other is dashed to pieces. After the breakdown of the developing
countries and after the failure of the state capitalist squad of the
global labour society, the East Asian model pupils of market economy
have vanished into limbo. Even in Europe, social panic is spreading.
However, the Don Quichotes in politics and management even more
grimly continue to crusade in the name of the "labour idol".
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zur info auch: der krisis newsletter ist frei im web zu lesen
und: open theory hat jetzt die google miteingebunden. super!!
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...die letzte zeile ist ja nimmer uptodate. sorry. dennoch ist ot auch
per google zu recherchieren. karl.
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