Bob Black

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Bob Black: Prolific Post-Left Anarchist

Bob Black was born on January 4, 1951, in the United States. Exact details of his death are unknown, but it is estimated that he died around 2020. Black was a prolific author who wrote extensively on anarchist theory, and was best known for his promotion of post-left anarchy and his book 'The Abolition of Work'.

Black's contribution to the anarchist movement was significant, particularly through his critique of work and authority. His ideas were influential in the 'post-left anarchy' movement. His writings often attacked the perceived failures of traditional leftist politics, and his works play a crucial role in anarchist theory. His life and works continue to impact and shape contemporary anarchist thought.

Date of Birth: 1951-01-04

Date of Death: 2020

Country of Birth: United States

Political Ideas: Absence Of Work And Authority

Quotes Available: 22

Quotes by Bob Black

The history of anarchism is a history of unparalleled defeat and martyrdom, yet anarchists venerate their victimized forebears with a morbid devotion which occasions suspicion that the anarchists, like everybody else, think that the only good anarchist is a dead one.

No one should ever work... In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working.

Every organization has more in common with every other organization than it does with any of the unorganized.

Freedom means more than the right to change masters.

Once you drain the vitality from people at work, they'll likely submit to heirarchy and expertise in everything. They're used to it.

Basically, revolutionaries never go far enough, and if they're not going to go far enough, they should stop upsetting people. Or killing them, for that matter.

Cleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy - anarchism minus Marxism - will be free to get better at being what it is.

A worker is a part-time slave.

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.

To my mind a right-wing anarchist is just a minarchist who'd abolish the state to his own satisfaction by calling it something else.

I think my basic viewpoint is that everything the left and right say about each other is true. And the reason it's true is because they have so much in common.

The demeaning system of domination I've described rules over half the waking hours of a majority of women and the vast majority of men for decades, for most of their lifespans.

No one should ever work. Workers of the world... relax!

Given a choice between anarchism and anarchy, most anarchists would go for the anarchism ideology and subculture rather than take a dangerous leap into the unknown, into a world of stateless liberty.

Most anarchists are, frankly, incapable of living in an autonomous cooperative manner. A lot of them aren't very bright. They tend to peruse their own classics and insider literature to the exclusion of broader knowledge of the world we live in.

A syndicalist is more likely to be a professor than a proletarian, more likely to be a folk singer than a factory worker. Organizers on principle, syndicalists are disunited and factionalized. Remarkably, this dullest of all anarchisms attracts some of the most irrational and hysterical adherents.

Under a system of permanent revelry, we will witness the Golden Age of the dilettante which will put the Renaissance to shame. There won't be any more jobs, just things to do and people to do them.

We need anarchists unencumbered by anarchism. Then, and only then, we can begin to get serious about fomenting anarchy.

I stubbornly persist in my opposition to the state. But not because, as anarchists so often thoughtlessly declaim, the state is not "necessary". Ordinary people dismiss this anarchist assertion as ludicrous, and so they should. Obviously, in an industrialized class society like ours, the state is necessary.

You may be wondering if I'm joking or serious. I'm joking and serious.

Post-leftist anarchists are striking off in many directions. Some may find the way - better yet, the ways - to a free future.

A libertarian is just a Republican who takes drugs.

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