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What follows is a short piece by Bob Black (author of "The Abolition of
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Work and Other Essays"). It's anticopyright so even the "propertarians" of
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the list can copy it and print it if they want to...
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WORDS OF POWER Bob Black 1980
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ART? An increasingly inadequate substitute for sex.
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BLOOD BANK? Is there any other kind?
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BOREDOM? Obligatory for sophisticates.
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THE BORN-AGAIN? Twice too often.
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CIVILIZATION? The biosphere's skin disease.
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CLASS WAR? The war to end all wars.
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COUPLES? Monogamy is monotony.
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THE CRUCIFIXION? Too little and too late.
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CYNICISM? Long since surpassed by events.
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DISCO? The bleat goes on.
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DISEASE? Very dangerous; a leading cause of doctors.
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ELECTIONS? Dumbocracy in action.
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FAITH? Is fatal - get thee behind me, God!
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THE FAMILY? No nukes!
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FEMINISM? Equality with men: a paltry ambition.
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FREE TIME? Work the boss doesn't pay you for.
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FULL EMPLOYMENT? A threat, not a promise.
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GAYS? JEWS? Elites impersonating the oppressed.
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GOVERNMENT? Guns don't kill, politicians do.
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GURUS? A good mantra is hard to find.
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HIPPIES? Running on empty.
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THE HOSTAGES? Noworth killing, not worth killing for.
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JUDGES? Doddering despots in clown suits.
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LAW? Crime without punishment.
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LAWYERS? Life support systems for mouths.
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THE LEFT? Left behind.
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LEISURE? Paying & playing are mutually exclusive.
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LIBERALS? Conservatives with a guilty conscience.
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LIBERTARIANISM? All the freedom that money can buy.
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LIFE AFTER DEATH? Why wait?
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MARXISM? The highest stage of capitalism.
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MASOCHISM? Like taking your work home with you.
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MYSTICS? Have incommunicable insights they won't shut up about.
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NECROPHILIA? A social disease.
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NIHILISTS? Going beyond good & evil, they stopped half-way.
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PEDAGOGICIDE? A victimless crime.
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PLEASURE? Interludes that accentuate pain.
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POLICE? Terrorists with the right credentials.
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POLITICS? Like a pond; the scum rises to the top.
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PREJUDICE? Folk sociology.
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PROPERTY? Is theft - and theft is proper.
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PUNKS? Hippies with amnesia.
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PUNK VENUES? Defoliated fern bars.
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PUNQUES? Punks who attend art school.
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RADIO EVANGELISTS? Less aural sects, more oral sex!
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REAGAN? A step in the Reich direction.
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RELATIONSHIPS? Being alone together.
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RELIGION? Deifying your defects.
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THE RIGHT? Wrong.
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ROCK MUSIC? Has a great future behind it.
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R.O.T.C.? Charnel knowledge.
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SAN FRANCISCO? Baja Sausalito.
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THE "SCENE"? How to be different like everybody else.
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SEX? An increasingly inadequate substitute for masturbation.
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SCHOOL VIOLENCE? Class struggle as struggle in class.
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SOCIALISTS? Sheep in wolves' clothing.
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TEACHERS? Outclassed.
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THERAPY? Punishment without crime.
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TROTSKYISM? Stalinism out of power.
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UTOPIA? Nostalgia for the future.
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VEGETARIANS? You are what you eat.
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ZIONISM? Jewish Nazism.
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[from "The Abolition of Work and Other Essays" by Bob Black, Loompanics
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Unlimited, 19??]
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