"It is now possible to abolish work and……" — Bob Black
"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. To abolish work requires going at it from two directions, quantitative and qualitative. On the one hand, on the quantitative side, we have to cut down massively on the amount of work being done. At present most work is useless or worse and we should simply get rid of it. On the other hand -- and I think this the crux of the matter and the revolutionary new departure -- we have to take what useful work remains and transform it into a pleasing variety of game-like and craft-like pastimes, indistinguishable from other pleasurable pastimes, except that they happen to yield useful end-products."
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18 Quotes by Bob Black
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I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance.
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[Libertarians] don't denounce what the state does, they just object to who's doing it. This is why the people most…
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... the place where [adults] pass the most time and submit to the closest control is at work. Thus, without…
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Unlike side issues like unemployment, unions, and minimum-wage laws, the subject of work itself is almost entirely absent from libertarian…
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Some people giving orders and others obeying them: this is the essence of servitude. Of course, as Hospers smugly observes,…
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To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy…
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You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and…
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The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps
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A [typical] worker is a part-time slave.
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Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you'd care to name comes…
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People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to…
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Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.
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More Abolish Quotes
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
— Aristophanes
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A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the…
— Roger Nash Baldwin
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We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?
— Brigitte Bardot
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The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and…
— James Buchan
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Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.
— Tony Campolo
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All the legislation in the world will not abolish kissing.
— Elinor Glyn
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If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man…
— James Madison
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When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
— Bertrand Russell
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If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
— Ludwig von Mises
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