Bob Black

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anarchist essayist human social critic writer

Bob Black is an American anarchist writer and social critic best known for his essay "The Abolition of Work" and his critiques of contemporary capitalism and leftist politics.

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Label	Occurrences
Bob Black canonical	2

Statements (37)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	anarchist ⓘ essayist ⓘ human ⓘ social critic ⓘ writer ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
fieldOfWork	anarchist philosophy ⓘ political theory ⓘ social theory ⓘ
genre	anarchist theory ⓘ political essay ⓘ social criticism ⓘ
ideology	anarchism ⓘ anti-capitalism ⓘ critique of leftism ⓘ
knownFor	critiques of contemporary capitalism ⓘ critiques of leftist politics ⓘ radical critique of work ⓘ
languageOfWork	English ⓘ
movement	anarchism ⓘ individualist anarchism ⓘ post-left anarchism ⓘ
nationality	American ⓘ
notableIdea	abolition of work ⓘ critique of traditional left politics ⓘ critique of wage labor ⓘ
notableWork	The Abolition of Work ⓘ
occupation	anarchist theorist ⓘ social critic ⓘ writer ⓘ
positionHeld	critic of organized left politics ⓘ social critic of contemporary capitalism ⓘ
writesAbout	capitalism ⓘ everyday life ⓘ labor ⓘ leftist politics ⓘ work ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

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Subject: Bob Black
Description of subject: Bob Black is an American anarchist writer and social critic best known for his essay "The Abolition of Work" and his critiques of contemporary capitalism and leftist politics.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Black → hasNotableBearer → Bob Black ⓘ

The Abolition of Work → author → Bob Black ⓘ