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political philosophy, social epistemology, anarchy, sometimes charts 📈 | PhDing @LSEGovernment | he/him yusufimaadkhan.com/watermelon
political philosophy, social epistemology, anarchy, sometimes charts 📈 | PhDing @LSEGovernment | he/him yusufimaadkhan.com/watermelon
![Further, the division of labour implies the contradiction between the interest of the separate individual or the individual family and the communal interest of all individuals who have intercourse with one another. And indeed, this communal interest does not exist merely in the imagination, as the "general interest," but first of all in reality, as the mutual interdependence of the individuals among whom the labour is divided. And finally, the division of labour offers us the first example of how, as long as man remains in natural society, that is, as long as a cleavage exists between the particular and the common interest, as long, therefore, as activity is not voluntarily, but naturally, divided, man's own deed becomes an alien power opposed to him, which enslaves him instead of being controlled by him. For as soon as the distribution of labour comes into being, each man has a particular, exclusive sphere of activity, which is forced upon him and from which he cannot escape. He is a hunter, a fisherman, a herdsman, or a critical critic, and must remain so if he does not want to lose his means of livelihood; while in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic. This fixation of social activity, this consolidation of what we ourselves produce into an objective power above us, growing out of our control, thwarting our expectations, bringing to naught our calculations, is one of the chief factors in historical development up till now. [2]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:72cjnaubupbhumt5jywa6opq/bafkreiaahvvtwxqg4nhckivmmmx6ozhn2foylqaokj7cbw2j4ivo5t3qa4)
![A report commissioned by the UK Labour Party during the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn was published in February 2021.
The report, titled Remaking the British State: For the many Not the few, proposed constitutional reform of the devolved governments of the UK and establishment of a federal UK system. 50][51]
The report recommended the following:
• A UK constitutional convention supported by citizens' assemblies with reform options
• A codified constitution, also significantly reducing the powers of the monarch
• Replacing the House of Lords with a federal senate of nations & regions
• A council of the union including first ministers of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and a Prime minister of the UK
• Proportional representation in the House of Commons
• Permanent constitutional independence for the Scottish parliament, Senedd Cymru/Welsh Parliament and the Northern Irish executive
• Increased borrowing & policymaking powers for the Scottish Parliament (including social security, alcohol taxation, drugs policy & postgraduate immigration)
• Devolution of policymaking and financial powers such as borrowing to English regions and councils 50]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:72cjnaubupbhumt5jywa6opq/bafkreiewvrgcsbfzvp3jvlgqfzxmffenchr7v34pcrlqqx7vrkx6hwc4li)
