Nick’s Notes: This is one of the few pieces that didn’t make the final cut for my Abolish Work collection. Kenyon was kind enough to let me publish it here instead. Passive Resistance In Work Abolition Malcolm X once said, “You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.” Here, he…
Nick’s Notes: Kevin gave me full permission to repost this a while ago but I totally forgot. Thanks, Kevin! Robert Balthazar. The Discrete Charm of Economic Growth. Part I: The Bilinguals; Part II: The Making of an Overriding Collective Preference (2016). At the outset Balthazar briefly summarizes his own intellectual journey as an economist, looking…
Nick’s Notes: This post was originally posted on Copblock.org under a Creative Commons License. I’ve spaced out Hotchkin’s essay and moved some of the photos around but done nothing else in the editing process. When once they stalked deer, or crouched shivering in the mud for the flight of ducks to alight, or risked their…
Note: The following is an excerpt from the 22nd chapter from George Orwell’s first full length book “Down and Out in Paris and London”. In the chapters leading up to this one the author describes the lives of people working as Plonguers or dishwashers at luxury hotels and restaurants in Paris. In the book he…
Taken from here and excerpted from Gorz’s Critique of Economic Reason: Summary for Trade Unionists and Other Left Activists. THE CRISIS OF WORK 1.1. The Ideology of Work Work for economic ends has not always been the dominant activity of mankind. It has only been dominant across the whole of society since the advent of…