[Reader-list] Anti-Work, Anti-Career and Anti-Civilization Get-Together,

[Ravikant]

FYI, especially for those who can go to Puri, Odisha, India on October 
12 and 13, 2012.

ravikant



*Being worker and wage-worker is the root cause of our problems *
*Anti-Work, Anti-Career and Anti-Civilization Get-Together*
*                                                      Join us at Puri, 
Odisha on October 12 and 13, 2012*
*Preface*
The question is not of misuse of power and power relations. It is the 
question of abolition of power. It is not the question of value-based 
politics versus corrupt politics. It is the question of abolition of 
politics. It is not the question of ideal job versus poorly paid job. It 
is the question of abolition of work and career. All the politics and 
governments till now have only redistributed power and work but they 
have not abolished it. In reality, civilization, power, work and state: 
they are one and the same.
*The Distinction between Work and Human Activity*
Singing, dancing, playing, hospitality are human activities. As soon as 
these activities turn into source of our livelihood, they become work. 
Instead of playing a game it becomes our career. It becomes potentially 
a part of Sports Industry. Singing and dancing become Entertainment 
Industry. Hospitality becomes Hospitality Management.  History of 
Civilization is the history of turning more and more human activities 
into work (-flows).
The differences among different forms of governments and the 
combinations of various policies are finally about differences of rate, 
extent or various forms of bringing workers with work together. Degree, 
quality and extent of Bringing Together express the degree, quality and 
the extent of functioning of a society and a state. Yet they keep coming 
unstuck: if not mind then body revolts and if not body then mind. One 
part revolts against another till they join each other together.
*Our Aims*
What else is the impersonal, organized power and violence other than 
impersonal, organized control over our work and its products?  We are 
against all work-pyramids operating in the name of countries, parties, 
families and identities. *We are for self-determined human activities 
which are not possible without abolition of our existence as 
wage-workers or serfs.* We are for non-hijackable, non-hierarchical and 
coercion-free communities.
*Meaning of the term /anhilaal /*
At the centre of the term hilaal is the infinitive: /hilaanaa/. In many 
South Asian languages it means to move, to shake something. /An/, the 
prefix, stands for negation.
The name is based on a belief about some tribal groups from eastern 
India. Early morning before going to work at the field of moneylender or 
landlord, s/he shakes haandi
(earthen pot)  with her toe. If the haandi  refuses to move s/he also 
refuses to move. So long there is rice in the haandi , s/he shall not 
move to work. So we are.
Primary aim of dominating social cultural norms, civilization, state, 
market and revolution is to bring two poles of work and worker together. 
If society and state have to function normally, then they have to be 
Brought Together. However, like two north poles of different magnets 
they get away from each other more easily than coming together.
Everybody is welcome to join in !
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*ContactUs :* Vilas Sukhadeve: sukhadeve.vilas at gmail.com 
<mailto:sukhadeve.vilas at gmail.com> ( +91-9822880834), Vinay Ranjan: 
ranjanvinay at yahoo.co.in <mailto:ranjanvinay at yahoo.co.in> 
(+91-9870563558), Faridabad Majdoor Samachar: baatein11 at yahoo.co.uk 
<mailto:baatein11 at yahoo.co.uk> ( +91 129 6567014)
*Websites: www.anhilaal.com <http://www.anhilaal.com>, 
http://faridabadmajdoorsamachar.blogs, www.johnzerzan.net 
<http://www.johnzerzan.net>*
*Circulated for Discussion Among Workers and Wage-Slaves by /anhilaal/: 
*Coalition against Work, Career, Representation and Civilization in 
South Asia ( CAWCRC)
*Disclaimer: All the members of the coalition agree on questioning Work, 
Career, Representation and Civilization as new and relevant points of 
departure. However, they might attach different meanings to the same key 
terms.*
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