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
work typical slave
A [typical] worker is a part-time slave.
sound findings looking-for-work
Looking for work sounds almost as bad as finding it.
work stupid chance
You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.
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.
worked
He was a mechanic, he was a writer, he really worked his way up in racing.
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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.