Cleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy – anarchism minus Marxism – will be free to get better at being what it is.
BOB BLACKYour foreman or supervisor gives you more or-else orders in a week than the police do in a decade.
More Bob Black Quotes
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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 is fetishism at its worst.
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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.
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Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.
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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.
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Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education.
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Those on the receiving end of coercion don’t quibble over their coercers’ credentials.
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Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.
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Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it’s forced.
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Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.
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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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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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A [typical] worker is a part-time slave.
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Your foreman or supervisor gives you more or-else orders in a week than the police do in a decade.
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Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.
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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.
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