are the wellsprings of our lives.
We are a group of apprentices from many apprenticeship professions who stand up for the sustainability and climate interests of apprentices ranging from actors to politics, business, education, administration and civil society. As a grassroots movement, we want to put training on a sustainable path from the bottom up.
The quote from Wilhelm Reich "Love, work and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives. They should also govern it." finds an artistic interpretation here in the form of the Greek goddesses of love, agriculture and wisdom.
Wilhelm Reich. Second generation psychoanalyst. His books were banned and burned in Germany and the USA. 60 years after his death, the two directors Kevin Hinchey and Glenn Orkin dedicate a documentary film to him. It symbolises the repression in psychoanalysis and the turning away from the political.
The combination of love, work and knowledge inscribes itself in the struggle for the "common". Many social initiatives have created fertile ground for the creation of social bonds and grassroots democracy, guided by scientific and public forms of knowledge.
Almost limitless "freedom" is being promised to workers in both the present and future of the digitalisation of the world of work. But how can we think beyond these transfigurations, in which people assume ownership of the means of production and the right to decide on and responsibility for strategic decisions?
For many people, work is a place of identification, knowledge acquisition and everyday structuring. Not having this place represents a big problem for most people. But what role does activism take in life? Can it also be called work?
"Third places" are meaningful for balancing work and private life as well as for integration, cohesion and the renewal capacity of communities. What are "third places" and what is their real potential?
If, as is the case, critical theory talks about there being nothing right in the wrong, how can it then be that people feel pleasure while working? Yes, it is indeed true: wage labour can be fun.