Bob Black

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Bob Black is an American anarchist. He is the author of The Abolition of Work and other essays, The Best Book Catalogue In The World by Bob Black, Friendly Fire and Anarchy After Leftism. He has also written numerous critiques of other anarchists, notedly Murray Bookchin.

Black's thesis in "The Abolition of Work" draws upon work by Marshall Sahlins and Richard Borshay Lee. Bob Black is a post-left anarchist.

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

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