The Right to Be Lazy: And Other Writings

Now in a new translation, a classic nineteenth-century defense for the cause of idleness by a revolutionary...
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Author: Paul Lafargue
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The Right to Be Lazy: And Other Writings by Lafargue, Paul

The Right to Be Lazy: And Other Writings

€22,98

The Right to Be Lazy: And Other Writings

€22,98
Author: Paul Lafargue
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Paul Lafargue
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 11/15/2022
Pages: 136
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.97h x 5.09w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781681376820


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/01/2022 pg. 106
Booklist 10/10/2022
Publishers Weekly 12/05/2022

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