Editing Refusal of work (section)

=== Anarchism ===
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[[Image:Bob Black (2011 BAAB).JPG|thumb|Bob Black, contemporary American anarchist associated with the [[post-left anarchy]] tendency]]

Bob Black's 1986 essay ''[[The Abolition of Work]]'' proposes a "life based on play" to replace work. He argues that work degrades workers through discipline and habituation, and equates work to social control and mass murder.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Seyferth |first1=Peter |chapter=Anti-Work: A Stab in the Heart of Capitalism |title=Routledge Handbook of Radical Politics |date=2019 |isbn=978-1-315-61988-0 |publisher=Routledge |chapter-url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315619880-31/anti-work-peter-seyferth |page=384 |doi=10.4324/9781315619880-31 |s2cid=242759065 |access-date=2023-07-29 |archive-date=2023-01-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230118052059/https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315619880-31/anti-work-peter-seyferth |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2022, ''Green Theory & Praxis Journal'' published a Total Liberation Pathway which involved "an abolition of compulsory work for all beings." Building on scholar Jason Hribal's description of animals as part of the working class and industries' labels of "working ecosystems" and "energy slaves," the proposal sought to free all animals, ecosystems, plants, minerals, and the planet Earth from exploitation. As part of this transformation, humans would drastically reduce their workweek and transform it into voluntary and self-managed hobbies.<ref>{{cite journal|first=Dan|last=Fischer|title=Let Nature Play: A Possible Pathway of Total Liberation and Earth Restoration|journal=Green Theory & Praxis|date=3 April 2022|volume=14|issue=1|pages=8–29|url=http://greentheoryandpraxisjournal.org/gtpj-volume-14-issue-1-3-april-2022/|access-date=2022-04-12|archive-date=2022-04-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220404160154/http://greentheoryandpraxisjournal.org/gtpj-volume-14-issue-1-3-april-2022/|url-status=dead}}.</ref>