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The Spunk Library collects and distributes literature in electronic format, with an emphasis on anarchism and related issues. For a more
complete description of what Spunk is about you can view the Spunk Manifesto.
The Reproduction of Daily Life
The everyday practical activity of tribesmen reproduces, or perpetuates, a
tribe. This reproduction is not merely physical, but social as well. Through their
daily activities the tribesmen do not merely reproduce a group of human
beings; they reproduce a tribe, namely a particular social form within which
this group of human beings performs specific activities in a specific manner.
The specific activities of the tribesmen are not the outcome of "natural"
characteristics of the men who perform them, the way the production of honey
is an outcome of the "nature" of a bee. The daily life enacted and perpetuated
by the tribesman is a specific social response to particular material and
historical conditions.
The everyday activity of slaves reproduces slavery. Through theirdaily
activities, slaves do not merely reproduce themselves and their masters
physically; they also reproduce the instruments with which the master
represses them, and their own habits of submission to the master's authority.
To men who live in a slave society, the master-slave relation seems like a
natural and eternal relation. However, men are not born masters or slaves.
Slavery is a specific social form, and men submit to it only in very particular
material and historical conditions.
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