SUMMARY: This article connects its arguments about labor with basic income, concluding, “[I]f the ultimate goal is liberation from poverty, that will only occur when we abandon the delusional quest for full employment for a system where income is separated from work.” Bernard Marszalek, editor of The Right to be Lazy (AK PRESS), can be reached at info@righttobelazy.com . He was a member of a worker cooperative for seventeen years.

Bernard Marszalek, “Laborless Day: Why Labor Day Needs Retooling.” CounterPunch, Weekend Edition August 29-31, 2014

The right to be lazy

The right to be lazy