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.
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.
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Wisconsin's big event for sheep producers and fiber enthusiasts is off and growing again, ... The Festival is the fastest growing event of its kind in the Midwest.
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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.
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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.