“In my opinion, the present manifestations of decadence are explained by the fact that economic and technological developments have highly intensified the struggle for existence, greatly to the detriment of the free development of the individual. But the development of technology means that less and less work is needed from the individual for the satisfaction of the community's needs. A planned division of labor is becoming more and more of a crying necessity, and this division will lead to the material security of the individual. This security and the spare time and energy which the individual will have at his disposal can be turned to the development of his personality. In this way the community may regain its health…”

— Albert Einstein, Society and Personality (from Ideas and Opinions)

“Laziness, now at last I must sing
A short hymn of praise to you. –
Oh –– how –– ti––ring I find it, ––
To –– extol you –– as you deserve!
Still, I shall do my best,
After work, rest is sweet.

Highest boon! Whoever has you,
His untroubled life ––
Ah! –– I –– yawn –– I –– grow weary ––
Well –– please –– forgive me –– then,
If I cannot sing your praises;
You are, you see, preventing me.”

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing,
Lob der Faulheit (In Praise of Laziness)

On seeing this, most people—liberals and even most "leftists"—would think we are silly and childish (anarkitties 🥰): we want to destroy the current politico-economic system and want full unemployment so that we—all of us—could play?? Surely we must be (anar)kitties in our anarcho-fantasyland!

Now… that's a cute picture used in the background of that image: two cute bunnies playing on a beach; and it does seem related to the quote, insofar as it is about "playing".

But it has a deeper meaning!

First, children's play and children's childness itself are regarded by our cancerous, authoritarian politico-economic system, as altogether undesirable, as things that should merely be tolerated because they're unavoidable, but not things of value in themselves. This we oppose, it is a tyrannical system—for children, but as much (actually more) for adults.

That brings us to the second aspect: adults' play. Adults' play is of course even more demonized: what! "adult's play"? What a ridiculous phrase!
But adult's play doesn't necessarily mean just building a little castle on the beach. It could as well be building a house for people to live in. Instead of regarding such tasks as a divine duty, as monotonous "work", why don't we conceive of it as free play? Something people do for their pleasure as well, and not merely because it's necessary? with autonomy and dignity, without any dictatorial authority in the equation?

But that finally brings us to the third point: these two kinds of play are not necessarily distinct. What essential difference is there, after all?
If children find it interesting to build a cute little building with the sand on a beach, might they not find it similarly interesting, when they grow up, to build a bigger building – for people to reside in etc?

Can't we have such a society based on play rather than this boring, monotonous, exhausting, repelling thing called work? It is certainly possible! We can and will make it happen. We will build a new world!

That is what we mean by abolition of work, or by "replacing work with play".

“The modern state, the rule of the bourgeoisie, is based on freedom of labor. … Freedom of labor is free competition of the workers among themselves. … Labor is free in all civilized countries; it is not a matter of freeing labor but of abolishing it.”

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“‘Free activity’…is for the communists the creative manifestation of life arising from the free development of all abilities of the ‘whole fellow’…”

— Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, The German Ideology (Ch. 3 – 1. I. §6. A, B)

“The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
The Sorrows of Young Werther (I. May 17)

“A great deal of nonsense is being written and talked nowadays about the dignity of manual labour. There is nothing necessarily dignified about manual labour at all, and most of it is absolutely degrading. It is mentally and morally injurious to man to do anything in which he does not find pleasure, and many forms of labour are quite pleasureless activities, and should be regarded as such. To sweep a slushy crossing for eight hours, on a day when the east wind is blowing is a disgusting occupation. To sweep it with mental, moral, or physical dignity seems to me to be impossible. To sweep it with joy would be appalling. Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt. All work of that kind should be done by a machine.”

— Oscar Wilde,
The Soul of Man Under Socialism

“Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt. All work of that kind should be done by a machine. And I have no doubt that it will be so. Up to the present, man has been, to a certain extent, the slave of machinery, and there is something tragic in the fact that as soon as man had invented a machine to do his work he began to starve. This, however, is, of course, the result of our property system and our system of competition.”

— Oscar Wilde,
The Soul of Man Under Socialism

“One man owns a machine which does the work of five hundred men. Five hundred men are, in consequence, thrown out of employment, and, having no work to do, become hungry and take to thieving. The one man secures the produce of the machine and keeps it, and has five hundred times as much as he should have, and probably, which is of much more importance, a great deal more than he really wants. Were that machine the property of all, everybody would benefit by it. It would be an immense advantage to the community.”

— Oscar Wilde,
The Soul of Man Under Socialism

“All unintellectual labour, all monotonous, dull labour, all labour that deals with dreadful things, and involves unpleasant conditions, must be done by machinery. Machinery must work for us in coal mines, and do all sanitary services, and be the stoker of steamers, and clean the streets, and run messages on wet days, and do anything that is tedious or distressing.”

— Oscar Wilde,
The Soul of Man Under Socialism

“At present machinery competes against man. Under proper conditions machinery will serve man. There is no doubt at all that this is the future of machinery, and just as trees grow while the country gentleman is asleep, so while Humanity will be amusing itself, or enjoying cultivated leisure — which, and not labour, is the aim of man — or making beautiful things, or reading beautiful things, or simply contemplating the world with admiration and delight, machinery will be doing all the necessary and unpleasant work.”

— Oscar Wilde,
The Soul of Man Under Socialism

“Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralising. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends. And when scientific men are no longer called upon to go down to a depressing East End and distribute bad cocoa and worse blankets to starving people, they will have delightful leisure in which to devise wonderful and marvellous things for their own joy and the joy of every one else. There will be great storages of force for every city, and for every house if required, and this force man will convert into heat, light, or motion, according to his needs.”

— Oscar Wilde,
The Soul of Man Under Socialism

“Is this Utopian? A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.”

— Oscar Wilde,
The Soul of Man Under Socialism

“I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.”

— Salvador Dalí,
Diary of a Genius (II. May 2, 1953)