Maybe this is nostalgia for the departed spirit of solidarity, when everyone bands together, which means “we can move mountains”? Labour per se has nothing to do with it... Labour in this case is not crucial, perhaps unpleasant, but it leads to a result. Planning, methods and responsibility – describing labour is almost impossible due to the complexity of defining it, such is the variety of its forms and methods. Does it exist now? Can writing this text be considered labour or merely a simulation of it? Labour today is as indescribable as it was yesterday. But there are results, the fruits of labour — they can be used to plot a graph of success or of hopeless regression. Thus it was back then, in the epoch of factories and plants, and so it is now when labour is devoted solely to one’s own interests.

As “from a spark a fire will flare up!”, thus can a flag be restored from a floor cloth, and vice versa. Everything is possible, and history is proof of this. Primitive or enthusiastic, brief or long-lasting – labour is illusive – one snatches at emptiness with one’s hands, draws squiggles, writes plans in a notebook, and if a goal is achieved and there is progress, then the labour straightens one’s shoulders, making one say, “Here I am, big, powerful, all this is thanks to me!” Although, if something has been achieved, but not quite, not what was expected, or it has nothing to do with us, then the labour as a process of creating it dwindles, loses value, and shrivels up into itself... However, the labour involved in both cases was more or less equal.

In a situation when the language describing labour is simple and familiar, the complexity and absence of a systematic approach to understanding this issue make one regard labour as something frightening, crooked-handed, brilliant and combining all earthly qualities simultaneously.