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Its very funny that they used Kropotkin instead of Marx, who actually opposed banning child labour
Just so this isn’t left hanging, from my understanding he was against child labor in the conditions of factory labor. The extent that he supported child labor, it was something like apprenticeship alongside education. Maybe not even “work” properly so called, but productive labor nonetheless. It is in line with the general belief of communists that labor is not inherently exploitative, but that under capitalist conditions, it becomes exploitative. Communists are pro-labor, labor as a fundamental human activity, something that can be positive. Hence for example the massively misrepresented Soviet labor camps, which basic idea is that consciousness is derived from practice; therefore you enforce a reformed practice in order to produce a reformed consciousness.
As I understand it, Marx advocated for children to continue working in factories, under capitalism, as useful for changing society. I agree that eventually socialism and communism will abolish work (wage-labour) and create factories very different to todays factories, but I dont think its relevant to what marx is talking about when he opposes banning child labour in e.g.
Critique of Gotha Programme:
Where he talks about the abolition of child labour as reactionary, even in 1870s germany. He isnt advocating children working just in the future communism, but as inevitable under capitalism and anyways beneficial for changing society