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Office Space and the Meaning of Work

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Ron Livingston, John C. McGinley, and Paul Willson in still from Office Space (20th Century Fox / PictureLux / The Hollywood Archive / Alamy Stock Photo).
Remembering a film that foreshadowed the big labor-capital conflict over dignity that we also see nowadays rocking our politics, society, and economy.

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Is Identity Politics a Capitalist Plot?

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Identity would seem on socialist terms to prevent the achievement of fundamental socialist aims rather than to advance them.

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Socialist Freedom, Economic Security, and Work

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Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks at the 2019 Women's March at Columbus Circle in New York City, January 19, 2019 (Image: Scootercaster/shutterstock.com).
In Marxist and socialist anthropology, people generally would mimic the behavior only of virtuous aristocrats.

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Is Having a Boss So Bad?

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Robin celebrates socialism as “freedom from rule by the boss,” but is being ruled by bureaucrats better?

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A Guaranteed Income Would Undermine the Social Virtues of Work

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Proponents of a universal basic income forget that the bourgeois virtues that sustain our society flow from embracing the value of work.

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