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These experts who offer to do our thinking for us rarely share their conclusions about work, for all its saliency in the lives of all of us. Among themselves they quibble over the details.
The Abolition of Work (1985)
A worker is a part-time slave.
The Abolition of Work (1985)
To define it is to despise it.
The Abolition of Work (1985)
In other words, 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.
Anarchism And Other Impediments To Anarchy (1985)
Guilt-tripping might not go over very well with ordinary people who know they are too powerless to be too guilty of anything. Demands for sacrifice lack appeal for those who have already sacrificed, and been sacrificed, too much and for too long.
Preface to The Right To Be Greedy (1983)
Please allow me to introduce myself …
I am Black the Knife, I am secretly famous, I have designer genes.
I’ve Got A Nietzsche Trigger Finger! (1986)
I tell everyone not to do what I say!
I’ve Got A Nietzsche Trigger Finger! (1986)
The dynamic of domination intrinsic to work tends over time toward elaboration. In advanced work-riddled societies, including all industrial societies whether capitalist or "communist," work invariably acquires other attributes which accentuate its obnoxiousness.
The Abolition of Work (1985)
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.
Anarchism And Other Impediments To Anarchy (1985)
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.
Anarchism And Other Impediments To Anarchy (1985)
The libertarian phobia as to the state reflects and reproduces a profound misunderstanding of the operative forces which make for social control in the modern world. If — and this is a big “if,” especially where bourgeois libertarians are concerned — what you want is to maximize individual autonomy, then it is quite clear that the state is the least of the phenomena which stand in your way.
The Libertarian as Conservative (1984)
I was never a member of For Ourselves, the San Francisco Bay Area pro-situationist group which wrote and self-published The Right to Be Greedy in 1974. The principal author was Bruce Gardner, who has long since dropped out of sight.
Preface to The Right To Be Greedy (1983)
I’m the heavyweight Light-Bringer, 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?
I’ve Got A Nietzsche Trigger Finger! (1986)