It is one of the greatest misunderstandings to talk of free, human, social work, or work without private property. ‘Work’ is essentially the unfree, inhuman, unsocial activity, determined by private property and creating private property. The abolition of private property becomes a reality only when it is understood as the abolition of ‘work’.
— Karl Marx, from the fairly obscure “Draft of an Article on Friedrich List’s book:
Das Nationale System der Politischen Oekonomie” (1845)
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