The Right to Be Lazy

Publication Year
2012
Language
English
Number of Pages
44
Physical Description
Quarter-size, text-based.
Summary
Contains the essay "The Right to Be Lazy" (1883) by French revolutionary and Marxist journalist Paul Lafargue.
In the essay Lafargue opposes the labour movement's fight to expand wage labour rather than abolish or at least limit it. Lafargue proposes the right to be lazy, in contrast to the right to work, which he deems bourgeois.
In the essay Lafargue opposes the labour movement's fight to expand wage labour rather than abolish or at least limit it. Lafargue proposes the right to be lazy, in contrast to the right to work, which he deems bourgeois.
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