cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/onehundredninetysix/p/449273/food-is-literally-rule
Food is literally rule
Edit: Could you please chill it with the taking everything so bloody seriously? It’s low-hanging fruit leftist agitprop from c/196. It doesn’t aim to be coherent with the very letter of Marx or whatever leftist group/cult-leader you prefer.
I wasn’t making an argument for any particular economic system. Just pointing out the absurdity of the idea that food is “free” or doesn’t require work to produce.
I’m for an equitable distribution of resources and drudgery. Unfortunately, drudgery is an unavoidable aspect of civilization, but I think we can all agree that civilization is (or should be) a net positive. We just need to spread it out evenly.
A lot of food actually is free. The commons supported a lot of people in the middle ages with nuts, berries and orchards.
The point was that private property is what creates the drudge.
If it requires labour, it’s not free.
My dude, have you ever tried to grow food in a garden, or forage enough for a meal? It’s extremely hard work. You could argue that those who work the land deserve to own the means of their produce, but you can’t claim food is free.
You’re right. It should be free, though. (As in free beer)
I’m not even sure if it should be “free”. Something that is inherently free implies a lack of value, it’s belittling to the workers who produce that food.
I think a better way to phrase it is that society should work together to provide the basic needs to those who participate in said society.
That’s the bourgeois ideology talking. If I invite friends to dinner, they receive the food for free, but they sure don’t think it’s worthless.
So guests should go hungry?
How?
A guest invited to a home for food does not believe that food is inherently free.
What is a guest in reference to a society?
You’re equating the concept of monetary value with general value. That those two things are inherently the same is a core belief of liberal/bourgeois ideology and IMHO: false.
What if the food was scavenged?
Let’s say a traveler who is not from here and isn’t part of the society I live in.
No, you’re just equating the concept of “free” in a purely monetary sense and completely ignoring the value of things like labour.
Even in this pedantic disconnected argument it still cost someone time and labour…
And they are refusing to participate in your society while still engaging with it? I don’t think thats really possible, and even if it was I don’t really see how it conflicts with socialism.
Lenin believed in the mandate that every able body person contribute before they reaped the benefits of socialism.