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This is actually very far left, just not the current wealthy-urban-lgbtq far left. USSR marxists and Maoists held the same views, where the individual's main function was to work and refusal to work or low productivity required either reformation (aka often, Gulag) or hunger.

"Those how do not work, do not eat" - Mao

Interestingly, psychoanalysis in the USSR was aimed at helping the patient to go back to work, for instance.



That's not a quote from Mao, it's from the second epistle to the Thessalonians, attributed to Paul and Timothy.

> For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: If any one will not work, let him not eat.

> 2 Thessalonians 3:10




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