After his daughter was born, he racked up thousands of dollars in debt in hospital and doctor’s bills because his employer provided no healthcare or parental leave benefits. McKenzie appreciated the online community for providing a space where people could talk openly and anonymously about work problems-but also for problematizing the very idea of work itself. In 2017, McKenzie joined r/antiwork which had 2,000 subscribers at the time and defined itself as “a subreddit for those who want to end work, are curious about ending work, want to get the most out of a work-free life, want more information on anti-work ideas and want personal help with their own jobs/work-related struggle.”
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In early 20s, he read Marx and Durkheim, and started to develop ideas that working-class people like himself “weren’t getting the full value of their labor.” He has been a bartender for most of his adult life. McKenzie is a 33-year-old living in Columbia, South Carolina.
If it grows in our community organically, then great.”
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“We as a mod team are somewhat hesitant to push forward with directing such praxis since we (as mostly anarchists) don't subscribe to ideas like a vanguard (like Marxist-Leninists do), but also because we think Reddit isn't a place to organize workers or mass action. “Blackout Black Friday originated as an idea of how we could turn the momentum we're having right now into real world praxis,” Victor, a chemist near Leipzig, Germany who identifies as an anarcho-communist and is a moderator for r/antiwork, told Motherboard. In recent weeks, the blackout Black Friday thread has expanded into a website, with graphs and charts depicting the growing gap between worker productivity and wages in the United States since 1948, and prompting viewers to “call in sick if you are forced to work on Black Friday-spend time with family instead.” That is the job of the community itself.” We’re moderators but we don’t have a sense of authority to guide the ship of antiwork. “We had a call out that said ‘What do you want?’ and this was the top idea. “This wasn’t just something that moderators came up with,” said McKenzie, the moderator. Get organized, boycott places that do black Friday stuff, be it online or in the store, and stay safe!”Īt the same time, many moderators, who identify as anarchists, feel it isn’t their place to determine the direction the group goes in. You only have one of them and you are doing this for them. “This Black Friday turn your phone off and spend time with your family. “This Black Friday, let’s hurt their bottom line,” u/FOWM_Sterling, wrote in a recent related post with 68,000 upvotes. Its first major real-world coordinated action will be calling on subscribers to abstain from all wage labor and shopping on Black Friday, an action described in depth in a thread called “ANTIWORK MEGATHREAD: BLACKOUT BLACK FRIDAY,” where subscribers have been prompted to brainstorm ideas for mutual aid and “ways in which this event could be impactful.” The mega-thread has received 12,000 upvotes. Anyone else quit their jobs while still showing up to grab as much cash before being shown the door?” “I quit my job mentally but I am still at work doing nothing and collecting pay. The group has launched a Discord and a Telegram group.
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R/antiwork’s rapid expansion and popularity has prompted some of its moderators, including Kevin McKenzie and Daisy, who wished to be identified by her first name only, to think about where the subreddit goes from here, and to crowdsource ideas for how to organize an anti-work movement off Reddit. General strike on Black Friday, November 26th! NO WORK! NO PRODUCTIVITY! NO SHOPPING!,” a flyer for Blackout Black Friday reads. This raises the question of whether a subreddit can become a broader ideology, and whether the ideology can then become a legitimate political force aligned with an already resurgent labor movement that often valorizes work. Posters there are currently organizing "BLACKOUT BLACK FRIDAY," a general strike for retail and hospitality workers that has already gone viral. But the subreddit isn't just a place for people to vent.
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