Bob Black
Bob Black
Robert Charles "Bob" Black, Jr.is an American anarchist. He is the author of the books The Abolition of Work and Other Essays, Beneath the Underground, Friendly Fire, Anarchy After Leftism, Defacing the Currency, and numerous political essays...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth4 January 1951
CountryUnited States of America
confidence fast kids swim year
We're going to take this one year at a time. Our kids have a lot of confidence that they can swim fast when they have to.
law issues literature
Unlike side issues like unemployment, unions, and minimum-wage laws, the subject of work itself is almost entirely absent from libertarian literature. Most of what little there is consists of Randite rantings against parasites, barely distinguishable from the invective inflicted on dissidents by the Soviet press....
work typical slave
A [typical] worker is a part-time slave.
stupid thinking people
People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.
law coercion succeed
Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.
sake leisure hopeless
Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.
play might ifs
Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced.
world misery source
Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.
sound findings looking-for-work
Looking for work sounds almost as bad as finding it.
adventure joy funny-travel
I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance.
law want sides
I'm the out-of-court jester who won't settle, I up the vigilante, I'm a law unto myself but break it anyway! I made a forced landing on the Moebius Strip and now I want to know, which side are you on?
get-better anarchy minus
Cleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy - anarchism minus Marxism - will be free to get better at being what it is.
order giving police
... the place where [adults] pass the most time and submit to the closest control is at work. Thus, without even entering into the question of the world economy's ultimate dictation within narrow limits of everybody's productive activity, it's apparent that the source of the greatest direct duress experienced by the ordinary adult is _not_ the state but rather the business that employs him. Your foreman or supervisor gives you more or-else orders in a week than the police do in a decade.
world libertarian corporations
To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy is fetishism at its worst.