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"The Conquest of Bread" by Peter Kropotkin

Red Menace

CHAPTER

The Collectivist Wages System - Chapter 13

Kropokin: The tendency to avoid manual labor and socially necessary labor comes from the fact that that labor is miserable under capitalism. Kropok insists that even if this sort of labor absenteeism is a problem, the state and wage are worse problems which don't clearly solve the issue at all. And additionally, he argues that we can look to instances of volunteering to see ways that this laziness can be dealt with.

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