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It is obvious that if the wages-system, which is the chief coercive force compelling men to work at their present jobs today, were to break down, the following situation would arise. A large number of people would be liberated but disorientated and they would immediately take the attitude of, "From now on it's spiv and live for me only mugs work!". This is to be expected. Domesticated Pussy when first turned loose in the woods looks around for another house to sponge off; she does not immediately take on a natural feline way of life. It is this situation that most social revolutionaries are afraid of, and they seek to set up authoritarian machinery to substitute political coercion for the economic coercion of capitalism. It is true that political coercion is not always easy to apply to the productive processes; under Lenin's dictatorship it was largely abandoned for the economic coercion of the New Economic Policy. However, if coercion is still resorted to after the breakdown of capitalism in order that men will still work, the "spiv and live" attitude will be preserved as a permanent social attitude.
β Never Work by Herman J. Schuurman, AndrΓ© Thirion, George Woodcock, and 2 others (Page 34)