If you have a social safety net so that the unemployed can live somewhere and eat, under this definition do they count as unemployed?
And a second point, in my home country the government introduced rules where to have government benefits you have to work a little, painting your community, cutting grass in public places etc.
People on the left were outraged. How dare you give work to people on a government mandate, and tie unemployment benefits to it?
Yet that is precisely what Stalin just argued for there. A government can create full employment by creating jobs and forcing people to work. Why don't modern socialists support that?
And a second point, in my home country the government introduced rules where to have government benefits you have to work a little, painting your community, cutting grass in public places etc.
People on the left were outraged. How dare you give work to people on a government mandate, and tie unemployment benefits to it?
Yet that is precisely what Stalin just argued for there. A government can create full employment by creating jobs and forcing people to work. Why don't modern socialists support that?