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The Abolition of Work
the only occasion on which man realizes his complete humanity by giving full “play” to both sides of his twofold nature, thinking and feeling.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
Like most social and political theory, the story Hobbes and his successors told was really unacknowledged autobiography.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
Discipline is what the factory and the office and the store share with the prison and the school and the mental hospital.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
Work makes a mockery of freedom.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
Unions and management agree that we ought to sell the time of our lives in exchange for survival, although they haggle over the price.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
Damn. Bars.
On the other hand—and I think this the crux of the matter and the revolutionary new departure—we have to take what useful work remains and transform it into a pleasing variety of game-like and craft-like pastimes, indistinguishable from other pleasurable pastimes except that they happen to yield useful end-products.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
Workers of the world... relax!
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
Free time is mostly devoted to getting ready for work, going to work, returning from work, and recovering from work. Free time is a euphemism for the peculiar way labor, as a factor of production, not only transports itself at its own expense to and from the workplace, but assumes primary responsibility for its own maintenance and repair.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
Creation could become recreation.