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
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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.
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.
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.
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?
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.