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"While Marxism stresses the redistribution of ownership of the
means of production, Illich is critical of proposals that allow the
market to retain its position of privilege in everyday life. Rather,
he insists that “excessive forms of wealth and prolonged formal
employment, no matter how well-distributed, destroy the social,
cultural, and environmental conditions for equal productive freedom.”
Recently, for example, the trial of a four-day work week in Iceland
appeared to have positive outcomes, including increased family time.
But in the major English-language report analyzing data from the
trial, success is also framed in terms of economic gains, celebrating
the fact that shorter working hours can lead to greater productivity.
We still live in what Illich calls “an age of commodity-defined
needs,” and our mentality around “leisure time” continues to be
defined by consumption. On the other end of the political spectrum,
while Illich’s emphasis on individual autonomy may appear to align
with the libertarian opposition to regulation and central planning,
there is a fundamental difference: Libertarians associate freedom with
the free market; Illich insists that it does not lie in the market at
all, but in domains of human activity that can be sustained outside
the commodified realm of economic relations.
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Illich understood that freedom requires limits. It is only by
curtailing runaway economic and technological development that the
vernacular can survive."
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