Bob Black

@Author, Timeline and Childhood ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Bob Black is an American author and anarchist Anarchists American University Of Michigan Intellectuals & Academics Philosophers Capricorn Celebrities Bob Black is considered one of the foremost post-left anarchists. He expressed his ideas in his books and essays in his inimitable style described as savagely satirical. He condemned work and called for its abolition. While the leftist sought full-employment, the author felt that society should not revolve around production and consumption. Work, he felt, was forced labor. The reward is either a carrot or a stick and compulsion is involved. Nobody works for the sake of working. Discipline demanded during work is servility. He says that it is possible to abolish work by cutting down the volume of useless work done and replace the useful work with pleasurable pastimes. He called for the abolition of housework done by housewives who, according to him, do the most tedious of tasks, work the longest hours. By achieving full unemployment, we can do away with the sexual division of labor. Yet, the author does not want to be identified with any anarchist group as it would be tantamount to associating himself to a whole lot of associations. He discredited democracy, as it did not guarantee correct decisions. He not only became notorious for his call to abolish work, but he would attack anyone who differed from him.

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Birthday: January 4, 1951 Nationality: American Famous: Author, Anarchists, University Of Michigan, Intellectuals & Academics, Philosophers Ideologies: Anarchists Known as: Robert Charles Black Jr., Black Bob Universities: University Of Michigan University of Michigan Georgetown Law School State University of New York (SUNY) SUNY Buffalo School of Law Notable Alumnis: University Of Michigan Information Detail Birthday January 4, 1951 Nationality American Famous Author, Anarchists, University Of Michigan, Intellectuals & Academics, Philosophers Ideologies Anarchists Known as Robert Charles Black Jr., Black Bob Universities University Of Michigan University of Michigan Georgetown Law School State University of New York (SUNY) SUNY Buffalo School of Law Notable Alumnis University Of Michigan Birth Place Detroit, Michigan Gender Male Sun Sign Capricorn Born in Detroit, Michigan Famous as American author

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According to Bob Black, when he was just eight years old, a psychiatrist diagnosed him as a bright psychoneurotic child with possibly some mild encephalopathy. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

The author claims that he was kicked out of school in four different grades, and this actually gave him an edge over others of his age. He developed his own views independently and was not brainwashed. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

Bob Black graduated from the University of Michigan and Georgetown Law School. He was disillusioned with the New Left on issues such as reforms on gay rights and abortions in the 1970s. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

At the University of Michigan, he could access ‘The Labadie Collection’ considered to be the world’s most updated collection of materials that document the evolution of anarchist thought. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

The author holds two post graduate degrees–one in jurisprudence and social policy from the University of California, Berkeley and the second in Criminal justice from University Of New York, Albany. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

In 1977, Bob Black initiated a poster project called ‘The Last International’, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He found the medium ideal as he could express everything he wanted without having to answer an editor. Unsplash Career

Black shifted his base to San Francisco in 1978. Here, he became involved with the publishing and cultural activities, and also in writing reviews and critiques of the lesser heard reformists. Unsplash Career

He was accused of harassing the ‘Processed World Collective’, the anarchist magazine, in the mid-1980s, with threat to destroy their property and trying to legally evict them from their office in San Francisco. Unsplash Career

In 1989, he alleged that a bomb was mailed to him by one of the members of the ‘Church of the SubGenius’ because of his criticism of the Church in his writings, of which he was a former member. Unsplash Career

‘Friendly Fire’, published in 1992, was a collection of 35 essays and theoretical papers from his the ‘Last International’ days. It was intended to provoke and motivate readers. Unsplash Career

‘The Abolition of Work’ was published in 1985 in which the author argues that work is the root of all misery as it involves an activity enforced by economic and political means. Unsplash Major Works

‘Anarchy After Leftism’ was published in 1997, in response to another anarchist, Murray Bookchin who criticized the post-left anarchist as being lifestyle anarchists. The book failed, however, to invalidate Bookchin’s main points. Unsplash Major Works

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Birthday	January 4, 1951
Nationality	American
Famous	Author, Anarchists, University Of Michigan, Intellectuals & Academics, Philosophers
Ideologies	Anarchists
Known as	Robert Charles Black Jr., Black Bob
Universities	University Of Michigan University of Michigan Georgetown Law School State University of New York (SUNY) SUNY Buffalo School of Law
Notable Alumnis	University Of Michigan
Birth Place	Detroit, Michigan
Gender	Male
Sun Sign	Capricorn
Born in	Detroit, Michigan
Famous as	American author

Bob Black

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Jan 4, 1951

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Detroit, Michigan