The Left seeks liberation of labor rather than liberation from labor.
Evidence
The manifesto points out that the political Left, in particular, has exalted labour. Not only has it declared work the essence of human being; more still, it has mystified labour and pronounced it the opposite principle to capital. The Left does not view work itself as a scandal – only its exploitation. For this reason, the manifesto concludes, the programme of all workers’ parties has always been simply the liberation of labour, instead of liberation from labour. Labour and Capital, then, represent two sides of the same coin. — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 114
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: The left must abandon Fordist nostalgia while still embracing release from repetitive labor; Capital absorbed workers’ own desire to escape Fordist routine, trapping the left
Related
- Capital absorbed workers’ own desire to escape Fordist routine, trapping the left (similarity 0.87)
- Capital co-opted workers’ own desire for liberation from Fordist routine (similarity 0.83)
- Capital absorbed the left’s own liberation desires against it (similarity 0.82)
- Labor grows more superfluous while society grows more committed to it. (similarity 0.80)
- The left historically centered emancipation, not statism (similarity 0.78)