FWD: Manifesto against Labour 2

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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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