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 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.
mean maps daily-life
The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps
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.
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.
get-better anarchy minus
Cleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy - anarchism minus Marxism - will be free to get better at being what it is.
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?
employment discrimination should
Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.
adventure joy funny-travel
I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance.
sound findings looking-for-work
Looking for work sounds almost as bad as finding it.
world misery source
Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.
play might ifs
Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced.
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.
law coercion succeed
Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.
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.