The Right to be Lazy is an essay by Cuban-born French revolutionary Marxist Paul Lafargue, written from his London exile in 1880. The essay polemicizes heavily against then-contemporary liberal, conservative, Christian and even socialist ideas of work. Lafargue criticizes these ideas from a Marxist perspective as dogmatic and ultimately false …
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The Right to be Lazy is an essay by Cuban-born French revolutionary Marxist Paul Lafargue, written from his London exile in 1880. The essay polemicizes heavily against then-contemporary liberal, conservative, Christian and even socialist ideas of work. Lafargue 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.
He manifests that "When, in our civilized Europe, we would find a trace of the native beauty of man, we must go seek it in the nations where economic prejudices have not yet uprooted the hatred of work … The Greeks in their era of greatness had only contempt for work: their slaves alone were permitted to labor: the free man knew only exercises for the body and mind ... The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods." And so he says "Proletarians, brutalized by the dogma of work, listen to the voice of these philosophers, which has been concealed from you with jealous care: A citizen who gives his labor for money degrades himself to the rank of slaves." (The last sentence paraphrasing Cicero.)
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- LibraryThing key:
- 785734
- BNF ID:
- 16963496g
Edizioni di Le droit à la paresse
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El derecho a la pereza
Brossura, 256 pagine
lingua español
Pubblicato il 25 Gennaio 2003 da Longseller.
- ISBN:
- 978-987-550-316-8ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 190858837
The right to be lazy
unknown binding, 79 pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 26 Giugno 1975 da C.H. Kerr.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-88286-026-8ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 3198629
Das Recht auf Faulheit
Brossura, 93 pagine
lingua German
Pubblicato il 1980 da Edition Sonne & Faulheit.
- Numero OCLC:
- 1017158054
The Right to Be Lazy
Brossura, 200 pagine
Pubblicato il 25 Ottobre 2022 da NYRB Classics.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-68137-682-0ISBN copiato!
Le Droit à la paresse
Paperback, 93 pagine
Pubblicato il 01 Gennaio 1996 da Le Temps des cerises.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-84109-052-5ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 34721047
Le droit à la paresse
Paperback, 76 pagine
lingua French
Pubblicato il 16 Gennaio 1999 da Éditions Allia.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-84485-020-1ISBN copiato!
- GoodReads:
- 1767940
The Right to be Lazy
lingua English
Pubblicato il 08 Settembre 2016
- ISBN:
- 978-1-5375-4187-7ISBN copiato!
Direito à Preguiça, O
Paperback
lingua Portuguese
Pubblicato il 26 Giugno 2003 da Claridade.
- ISBN:
- 978-85-88386-08-2ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 246907458
Le Droit à la paresse
157, pagine
lingua French
Pubblicato il 16 Gennaio 1982 da Éditions Maspero.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-7071-0305-5ISBN copiato!
THE RIGHT TO BE LAZY AND OTHER STUDIES by PAUL LAFARGUE
lingua English
Pubblicato il 11 Dicembre 2016
- ISBN:
- 978-1-5408-7416-0ISBN copiato!
Das Recht auf Faulheit.
Hardcover, 77 pagine
Pubblicato il 01 Ottobre 2001 da Europäische Verlagsanstalt.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-434-50517-4ISBN copiato!
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