Some Athenian Anarchists Adopt Bob Black's Post-Left Anarchist View of Abolishing Work

Some of today's Athenian anarchists and anti-authoritarians, steeped in the insurrectionist and Black Bloc tactics of direct actions and small affinity groups, may be hostile to formal organisations that focus on propaganda, and as such preclude them from historical narratives.

Certainly, this theme was evident in conversations with Tony. He was openly hostile to the benefits of anarchist rank-and-file unionism as part of his broader critique of notions of work. This is the sort of critique mirroring Bob Black's The Abolition of Work, where, in far greater detail than this memorable conclusion, he argues that '[n]o one should ever work. Workers of the world ... relax!' Echoing this distinction between anarchist currents, Panayiotta told me that the old history is 'not our anarchism. We are not like the old fighters. They are not our stories to tell.' Likewise, and somewhat frustrated by my constant questioning, Helena insisted that she shares 'little with this history, what is there to eulogise?'

--Nicholas Apoifis, Anarchy in Athens: An Ethnography of Militancy, Emotions and Violence, Contemporary Anarchist Studies (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017), 79-80.