Quotes by Bob Black

About 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.
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Work, then, institutionalizes homicide as a way of life. People think the Cambodians were crazy for exterminating themselves, but are we any different? The Pol Pot regime at least had a vision, however blurred, of an egalitarian society. We kill peop...

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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 monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as...

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The real enemy" is the totality of physical and mental constraints by which capital, or class society, or statism, or the society of the spectacle expropriates everyday life, the time of our lives. The real enemy is not an object apart from life. It ...

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The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps.

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Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.

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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 vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.

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I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance.

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Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.

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Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced.

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Author Bio

  • NameBob Black
  • DescriptionAmerican anarchist
  • AliasesRobert Charles "Bob" Black, Jr.
  • BornJanuary 4, 1951
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter