I think the transistion Wang seeks may be aided by distinguishing between Labor and Work. I am only familiar with the two terms in Spanish, French, and German, languages where industrialization was driven by pursuit of maximum return on capital as private property. I believe there are two terms in Chinese.
I have found the distinction useful to my own emotional stability and in teaching Marxism to creative "ordinary people" in late capitalist cities of the former slave states of the US where I have lived most of my life..
I am an 87 year old U.S.sociologist, socialist, and social artist. When purged from my academic labor for teaching socialism not sociology, I adopted the definition of a German artist I heard speaking of art in Greece: "Art conveys what cannot yet be conveyed in the language of science or prose."
Economically supported by my husband, 'tho known as a feminist and Marxist, I accepted my identity as in accord with the sexual division of labor, mine being the labor of home making and child caring, and my "real" work as in accord with the tradition of amateur woman artist. In other words, art work "for the love of it" When my artist friends complained about never being paid for the labor value of their work, I began encouraging them to define the difference between their labor and work. Labor being time spent doing what another wants as they want ] it done to earn the means to get what one wants from yet another[s]. Want being defined as need or as desire. Thus it is labor that makes us interdependent and civil.
My friends' particular labor may have been waitressing or creating art work for a commercial, or a commision, or and sadly most often"on spec" (speculation on what the collectors' art market is buying.) Put more briefly if crassly: labor is bossed time for pay. One's work may or may not employ and hone the same skills, but one's work may be unbossed and unpaid. IE Free.
Thus, it may be said, that as we transistion from what we call capitalist societies to socialist ones, we increasingly Labor in order to Work. To become more civil and civilly interdependent,
we should -- especially as we use A I -- all spend some time performing labor -- everyone can dosomething another wants (eg: maybe putting on a smile while receiving an experimental drug in hopes of curing what we will surely die from otherwise.) Insofar as we all become members of the proletariat class, dictating and enforcing laws in the mutual interest of we who have to sell nothing but our labor power, we will all enjoy maximum human Freedom. Freedom to work (eg: maybe untangling a fishing line or staring at the stars, during which an ordinary person may or may not have an "Aha!" experience that has the effect of catapulting the humanization of our species somewhere wonderful and inconceivable to me.)
I think the transistion Wang seeks may be aided by distinguishing between Labor and Work. I am only familiar with the two terms in Spanish, French, and German, languages where industrialization was driven by pursuit of maximum return on capital as private property. I believe there are two terms in Chinese.
I have found the distinction useful to my own emotional stability and in teaching Marxism to creative "ordinary people" in late capitalist cities of the former slave states of the US where I have lived most of my life..
I am an 87 year old U.S.sociologist, socialist, and social artist. When purged from my academic labor for teaching socialism not sociology, I adopted the definition of a German artist I heard speaking of art in Greece: "Art conveys what cannot yet be conveyed in the language of science or prose."
Economically supported by my husband, 'tho known as a feminist and Marxist, I accepted my identity as in accord with the sexual division of labor, mine being the labor of home making and child caring, and my "real" work as in accord with the tradition of amateur woman artist. In other words, art work "for the love of it" When my artist friends complained about never being paid for the labor value of their work, I began encouraging them to define the difference between their labor and work. Labor being time spent doing what another wants as they want ] it done to earn the means to get what one wants from yet another[s]. Want being defined as need or as desire. Thus it is labor that makes us interdependent and civil.
My friends' particular labor may have been waitressing or creating art work for a commercial, or a commision, or and sadly most often"on spec" (speculation on what the collectors' art market is buying.) Put more briefly if crassly: labor is bossed time for pay. One's work may or may not employ and hone the same skills, but one's work may be unbossed and unpaid. IE Free.
Thus, it may be said, that as we transistion from what we call capitalist societies to socialist ones, we increasingly Labor in order to Work. To become more civil and civilly interdependent,
we should -- especially as we use A I -- all spend some time performing labor -- everyone can dosomething another wants (eg: maybe putting on a smile while receiving an experimental drug in hopes of curing what we will surely die from otherwise.) Insofar as we all become members of the proletariat class, dictating and enforcing laws in the mutual interest of we who have to sell nothing but our labor power, we will all enjoy maximum human Freedom. Freedom to work (eg: maybe untangling a fishing line or staring at the stars, during which an ordinary person may or may not have an "Aha!" experience that has the effect of catapulting the humanization of our species somewhere wonderful and inconceivable to me.)
He is using Marxism to justify his call of a more human-centric approach