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An optimal sexual encounter is the paradigm of productive play. The participants potentiate each other's pleasures, nobody keeps score, and everybody wins. The more you give, the more you get.

— Bob Black The Abolition of Work (1985)

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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)

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