Ebook - The right to be lazy by Lafargue, Paul

The Right To Be Lazy is an essay by Cuban-born French revolutionary Marxist Paul Lafargue, written from his prison cell in 1883. It polemicizes heavily against contemporary liberal, conservative and even socialist ideas of work. Lafargues criticizes these ideas from a Marxist perspective as dogmatic and ultimately false by portraying the degeneration and enslavement of human existence when being subsumed under the primacy of the "right to work", and argues that laziness, combined with human creativity, is an important source of human progress. The right to be lazy, and other studies (1907) Author: Lafargue, Paul, 1842-1911; Kerr, Charles H., b. 1860 Subject: Social problems Publisher: Chicago : C.H. Kerr & Co. Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT Language: English Call number: SRLF_UCLA:LAGE-5114089 Digitizing sponsor: MSN Book contributor: University of California Libraries Collection: americana; cdl This ebook is in the public domain !