• JucheBot1988
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    102 years ago

    That’s fair enough, I suppose, but anarchists really seem to be the only people who interpret the quote in this way. Back when Lenin said it (referencing, as @whoami pointed out, the Christian gospels), everyone seemed to understand it as “people like capitalists and aristocrats, who are able to work and refuse to, aren’t going to be to be fed. So if you’re an able-bodied adult, better roll up your sleeves and get to it!” The Soviet state from the beginning, remember, recognized that there would always be a minority of people who were unable to work for legitimate reasons, and saw to their support.