- Work, Marxism, Laziness, Working class
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.
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- Author
- Paul Lafargue
- First published
- 1893
- Pages
- 76
- Publisher
- Books on Demand GmbH, Le Temps des cerises, Izd. G.A. Kuklin
- Editions
- 93
- Language
- German, heb, yid, Italian
- ISBN
- 9781849350860
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