Paul Lafargue

The Right to be Lazy

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Tembellik Hakki

Le droit à la paresse

Juif et caraïbe par sa mère, mulâtre par son père, Paul Lafargue (1842-1911), gendre de Karl Marx, se targuait de réunir en lui le sang de trois peuples opprimés. Sa vie se confond avec la naissance du mouvement socialiste international. Dans Le Droit à la paresse, il décrit cette " étrange folie qui possède les classes ouvrières des nations où règne la civilisation capitaliste " : l'amour du travail.

Now in a new translation, a classic nineteenth-century defense for the cause of idleness by a revolutionary writer and activist (and Karl Marx's son-in law) that reshaped European ideas of labor and production. Exuberant, provocative, and as controversial as when it first appeared in 1880, Paul Lafargue’s The Right to Be Lazy is a call for the workers of the world to unite—and stop working so much! Lafargue, Karl Marx’s son-in-law (about whom Marx once said, “If he is a Marxist, then I am clearly not”) wrote his pamphlet on the virtues of laziness while in prison for giving a socialist speech. At once a timely argument for a three-hour workday and a classical defense of leisure, The Right to Be Lazy shifted the course of European thought, going through seventeen editions in Russia during the Revolution of 1905 and helping shape John Maynard Keynes’s ideas about overproduction. Published here with a selection of Lafargue’s other writings—including an essay on Victor Hugo and a memoir of Marx—The Right to Be Lazy reminds us that the urge to work is not always beneficial, let alone necessary. It can also be a “strange madness” consuming human lives.

And Other Writings

The Right to Be Lazy

Das Recht auf Faulheit und Die Religion des Kapitals

Alex Andriesse

Yves Guyot

thèse communiste

La propriété, origine et évolution

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And Other Studies - Scholar's Choice Edition

The Religion of Capital

A religião do capital

O direito à preguiça

The Right to be Lazy is an essay by French revolutionary Marxist Paul Lafargue. It presents a controversial debate and criticizes against then-fashionable liberal, conservative, Christian and even socialist concepts of labor.

The Right to Be Lazy, and Other Studies

Reproduction of the original: The Right to be Lazy by Paul Lafargue

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