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
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.
mean maps daily-life
The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps
employment discrimination should
Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.
order names evil
Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you'd care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working.
people degrees doe
[Libertarians] don't denounce what the state does, they just object to who's doing it. This is why the people most victimized by the state display the least interest in libertarianism. Those on the receiving end of coercion don't quibble over their coercers' credentials. If you can't pay or don't want to, you don't much care if your deprivation is called larceny or taxation or restitution or rent. If you like to control your own time, you distinguish employment from enslavement only in degree and duration.
jobs mean order
Some people giving orders and others obeying them: this is the essence of servitude. Of course, as Hospers smugly observes, "one can at least change jobs," but you can't avoid having a job - just as under statism one can at least change nationalities but you can't avoid subjection to one nation-state or another. But freedom means more than the right to change masters.
stupid television chance
You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education.
work stupid chance
You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.
worked
He was a mechanic, he was a writer, he really worked his way up in racing.
drop service soon street whenever
We give them extra-special service whenever they have an accident. We drop what we are doing to get them back on the street as soon as possible.
girls hard ready rivalry worked
We've had a rivalry with them for a long time. We've been gunning for this for years. The girls were ready and they worked real hard all year.
early front game leave might morning somewhere
We might get there at 9:30 in the morning for a 1 o'clock game and then leave somewhere between 7 and 8 that night. We like to be right in front of Farley Hall, if we get there early enough.
calls wants
Normally, when he wants to get someone elected, he calls me.