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 jobs,” but you can’t avoid having a job.
BOB BLACKJust 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.
More Bob Black Quotes
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The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps
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Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.
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Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.
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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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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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Cleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy – anarchism minus Marxism – will be free to get better at being what it is.
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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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Your foreman or supervisor gives you more or-else orders in a week than the police do in a decade.
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I’m the out-of-court jester who won’t settle, I up the vigilante, I’m a law unto myself but break it anyway! I made a forced landing on the Moebius Strip and now I want to know, which side are you on?
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Those on the receiving end of coercion don’t quibble over their coercers’ credentials.
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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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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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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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A [typical] worker is a part-time slave.
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