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The lucky unemployed persons are a loose organized movement of - according to own data - "few millions" humans in Europe, who want to promote the concept of lucky unemployment in such a way specified.
By lucky unemployment a condition is understood to accept the fact of unemployment to enjoy in the bounds of possibility and deal by a Coming out offensively with it. In order to facilitate this, a "kind-fair of biotope for lucky unemployed persons" is to be created, for example by a variant of the basic income (citizen money) and the conceptual Umdefinition of "unemployed" in "moneyless" and/or of "job seekers" into "money-looking for" etc.
Beside rhetorical Spielereien the lucky unemployed persons present themselves ideologically as far as possible witthout obligation; they point any proximity to ideas from itself, celebrate however a certain - however remaining always witthout obligation superficial spassig - proximity to anarchist and situationistic ideas.
The lucky unemployed persons in appointment to the artist Kasimir Malewitsch meet the reproach the work-shy and putridness, the 1921 in its book the putridness as actual truth of humans. The work as instrument for reaching the truth. Philosophy of the socialist idea wrote:
Already 1973 published Peter Paul Zahl in West Berlin a magazine with the title the lucky unemployed person, in which he demanded a "professional disqualification for all" in classical Sponti tradition. The movement of the lucky unemployed persons does not appoint itself surprisingly however to this "tradition", gives however since 1998 an appearing sporadic own publication, the idle gangster (meditation sheet of the lucky unemployed persons; Archives) out.
In a report the Frankfurt general newspaper marked for example in taz to 30. March 1998 (TAZ No. 5495) in part printed communist manifesto of the lucky unemployed persons as "one of the rare attempts to find for the unemployment dilemma a cultural expression"; other media speak simply of "Heuchelei".
A background of the search of increasingly broader social classes, which go meanwhile beyond fringe groups splintered, may lie in the realization justified that in the future 20 per cent of the employable population of world for the maintenance of the working sphere will be sufficient; the remaining 80 per cent of the population of world are to possibly become "secured" by a minimum basic safety device more or less (see).
Critics of the lucky unemployed persons do not find the popularity of this grouping surprising with the civil feuilleton. The unemployed persons are to be able to become "lucky", without having to place the Lohnarbeit in question. The class warfare is explained for redundant. Actually however, so the critics, unemployed persons are and dependently persons employed equally subjected to the system of the Lohnarbeit, the state and the capital. This connection, which becomes particularly clear by the Hartz iv-reform, was already before given.
Also who has free time, it cannot use freely, since also the area is organized in accordance with the necessities for the utilization of capital.
Out of view of the critics it concerns a variant positive thinking. By a bare change of the attitude is one, without having, become "lucky" to fight against existing conditions. This regressive consumer fantasy found fast "social acceptance". Fortunately belongs however more than the possibility of consuming unimpaired on basic safeguard level.
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