This was a question or rather a series of questions I heard over the weekend as I was discussing Marxism, class, labour etc. with a friend and I frankly couldn’t really answer their questions. So here I am again asking it because this community provides incredible answers <3
The discussion was about work and their question was: “If class is abolished in communism and the people are taken care of, why would anyone work at all? Who is going to work in coffee shops, pick up trash, work in stores etc.? What would be the incentive for people to do anything productive?” I did my best saying that those jobs would still exist, but I kind of fumbled the argument.
Do you mean that classes will not be abolished under communism? Also, would not the negation count as abolition anyways?
Abolition implies that it will happen in one fell swoop; while there is a law of change happening in leaps (quantitative change turns to qualitative change, but needs to be helped along), it would be more accurate to call it transformation, sublation, etc.
he made a statement so thoughtfully articulated even his opps cheered (online chud language to english: What a thouhtful use of language on your part that easily conveys the nuances of diamat)
I think the right term of “withering away”, and I think abolition does imply a more anarchist line.