Bob Black Quotes

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• I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance.
• [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 place where [adults] pass the most time and submit to the closest control is at work. Thus, without even entering into the question…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.
• 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…
• The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps
• A [typical] worker is a part-time slave.
• 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…
• 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…
• Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.
• 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…
• Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.
• Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced.
• You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.
• I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance. Play isn't passive.
• It is now possible to abolish work and replace it, insofar as it serves useful purposes, with a multitude of new kinds of free activities.…

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