“Inalienable Rights: Part I The Basic Argument” Against the Employer-Employee System and for Workplace Democracy

https://www.ellerman.org/inalienable-rights-part-i-the-basic-argument/

This article discusses how the contemporary system of labor relations treats employees as things rather than persons thus denying their humanity, and violating rights they have because of their personhood. Instead, work should be democratically controlled by the people doing it

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    1 year ago

    Since workers were born into a world that affirms private property, they obviously never gave it their consent.

    It is just a fiction that developed its own life by the whip, blade, and gun, and also by the pen and press.

    Most of the work of leftist criticisms has been simply deconstructing entrenched doctrine, to help expand consciousness, and to build capacity for liberation.

    Ellerman seems to prefer instead constructing his own layer of obfuscation.

    It is worth becoming familiar with leftist criticisms of natural rights.