Primer 18 — Against Work · CURATED BY MICHAEL MCINNIS
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Ret Marut is purported to be the real name of B. Traven, author of Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
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No one should ever work
Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you’d care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working.
– Bob Black, The Abolition of Work and other essays
Don’t buy yourself Sunday clothes and don’t be ashamed to sleep on planks at home, and to walk along posh roads without trousers, laughing; it furthers the revolution more than singing The Internationale or studying the conjuring tricks which the popes of Berlin and Moscow have for sale.
— Ret Marut, from Der Ziegelbrenner, n.35/40, 21st December 1921
— Ret Marut, from Der Ziegelbrenner, n.35/40, 21st December 1921
He that works for another, either for Wages, or to pay him Rent, works unrighteously, and still lifts up the Curse; but they that are resolved to work and eat together, making the Earth a Common Treasury… lift up the Creation from Bondage, and restore all things from the Curse.
— Gerard Winstanley, in The True Levellers Standard Advanced, 1649
— Gerard Winstanley, in The True Levellers Standard Advanced, 1649
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