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The Right to Be Lazy, and Other Studies
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.
122 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 30, 2024
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Paul Lafargue
160 books91 followersFrench revolutionary Marxist socialist and Karl Marx's son-in-law.Lafargue was born in Cuba to French and Creole parents. Karl Marx even once reffered to him by the n-word.
Lafargue his main work was called the right to be lazy. In which he calls upon not only the right to work, but also the right to be lazy. At the beginning of that book he claimed that the African slaves lived under better circumstances than the European worker.
At 69 he died together with his wife Laura in a suicide pact.
Lafargue his main work was called the right to be lazy. In which he calls upon not only the right to work, but also the right to be lazy. At the beginning of that book he claimed that the African slaves lived under better circumstances than the European worker.
At 69 he died together with his wife Laura in a suicide pact.
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