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As for "decadence," that is an eminently bourgeois swear-word for people perceived to be having more fun than you are.
Anarchy after Leftism (1997)
What I really want to see is work turned into play.
The Abolition of Work (1985)
There is life after the left. And there is anarchy after anarchism. Post-leftist anarchists are striking off in many directions. Some may find the way — better yet, the ways — to a free future.
Anarchy after Leftism (1997)
Do you have ideas, or do ideas have you?
Preface to The Right To Be Greedy (1983)
No one can say what would result from unleashing the creative power stultified by work. Anything can happen.
The Abolition of Work (1985)
A libertarian is just a Republican who takes drugs.
The Libertarian as Conservative (1984)
If you like to control your own time, you distinguish employment from enslavement only in degree and duration.
The Libertarian as Conservative (1984)
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.
Anarchy after Leftism (1997)
If your language lacks poetry and paradox, it’s unequal to the task of accounting for actuality. Otherwise anything radically new is literally unspeakable.
The Libertarian as Conservative (1984)
Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced. This is axiomatic.
The Abolition of Work (1985)
You may be wondering if I'm joking or serious. I'm joking and serious.
The Abolition of Work (1985)
You can’t treat values like workers, hiring and firing them at will and assigning each a place in an imposed division of labor. The taste for freedom and pleasure can’t be compartmentalized.
The Libertarian as Conservative (1984)
Every organization has more in common with every other organization than it does with any of the unorganized.
Anarchism And Other Impediments To Anarchy (1985)
Free time is mostly devoted to getting ready for work, going to work, returning from work, and recovering from work.
The Abolition of Work (1985)
And so it is, although it is nothing but a description of the modern workplace.
The Abolition of Work (1985)
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.
The Libertarian as Conservative (1984)
But freedom means more than the right to change masters.
The Libertarian as Conservative (1984)
Why rush to the barricades or, for that matter, why even bother to vote?
Preface to The Right To Be Greedy (1983)
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.
The Abolition of Work (1985)