I feel compelled to offer an explanation. Labor is not the issue with America. Labor is a requirement to achieve production. All of us participate, to some degree, in labor. It is a synonym for work. What I dislike about denigrating labor is that this practice fuels the fire of class antagonism described in Capital. The political movement known as the labor movement defines this conflict as a natural progression in capitalism. Denigrating "labor" is to bastardize the term in such a way as to maintain a political distance with people who identify as workers. I considered myself a laborer, one doing physically demanding work. But I never belonged to trade union, or to the Communist Party. If labor is a politicized word that I should drop because it is just the left's implement to maintain influence among low-income individual, just say the word.