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  • The Right to Be Lazy, and Other Studies

    by Lafargue ...
    The Right to Be Lazy, and Other Studies by Paul Lafargue is a provocative and influential collection of essays that challenges the dominant work ethic of modern capitalist society. First published in the late 19th century, the book’s titular essay, The Right to Be Lazy, serves as a radical critique of the glorification of labor and the relentless pursuit of productivity. Lafargue, a Marxist ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Right to Be Lazy

    With a New Critical Introduction

    by Paul Lafargue ...
    Translated by Charles H. Kerr ...
    Series Book 294 - The Progress Publishers Library
    The most famous thing Lafargue wrote, and one of the most quoted texts in the history of socialism - and, for a century, oddly homeless. Too funny for the theoretical journals, too heretical for the movement's official catechisms, too obviously right to be forgotten. It keeps being rediscovered, and the rediscoveries keep not quite arriving.He wrote it as a run of articles in the French workers' ... Read more

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  • The Right to be Lazy

    by Paul Lafargue ...
    M. Thiers, at a private session of the commission on primary education of 1849, said: "I wish to make the influence of the clergy all-powerful because I count upon it to propagate that good philosophy which teaches man that he is here below to suffer, and not that other philosophy which on the contrary bids man to enjoy." M. Thiers was stating the ethics of the capitalist class, whose fierce ... Read more

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  • The Right to Be Lazy

    And Other Writings

    by Paul Lafargue ...
    Translated by Alex Andriesse ...
    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! ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • The Right To Be Lazy

    by Paul Lafargue ...
    Translated by Charles Kerr ...
    Loafers, loungers, and malingers of the world, this is your manifesto. Though it may sound like little more than a slacker's bill of rights, Paul Lafargue's The Right to Be Lazy is actually a carefully considered philosophical defense of a life free of the demands of labor that is carried out purely in the service of capitalism. The thinker was true to his belief system, dying in a joint suicide ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Right To Be Lazy

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    by Paul Lafargue ...
    "In capitalist society work is the cause of all intellectual degeneracy, of all organic deformity."This essay raises interesting questions : is work really a virtue? Isn't work the source of many social imbalances? These are all questions that lend themselves to an exciting and topical debate on the role of work in our society. ... Read more

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  • The Right to be Lazy

    by Paul Lafargue ...
    Series series Anarchist Library Texts
    This ebook has been ported from theanarchistlibrary.org.M. Thiers, at a private session of the commission on primary education of 1849, said: “I wish to make the influence of the clergy all powerful because I count upon it to propagate that good philosophy which teaches man that he is here below to suffer, and not that other philosophy which on the contrary bids man to enjoy.” M. Thiers was ... Read more

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  • The Right to be Lazy and Other Studies

    by Paul Lafargue ...
    A Greek poet of Cicero's time, Antiparos, thus sang of the invention of the water-mill (for grinding grain), which was to free the slave women and bring back the Golden Age: "Spare the arm which turns the mill, O, millers, and sleep peacefully. Let the cock warn you in vain that day is breaking. Demeter has imposed upon the nymphs the labor of the slaves, and behold them leaping merrily over the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    ΤΟ ΔΙΚΑΙΩΜΑ ΣΤΗΝ ΤΕΜΠΕΛΙΑ

    by PAUL LAFARGUE ...
    Narrated by Digital Voice Theos E ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 19 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Στον απόηχο της Βιομηχανικής Επανάστασης, όταν κυρίαρχο αίτημα του εργατικού κινήματος ήταν το δικαίωμα στην εργασία, ο Γάλλος σοσιαλιστής Πολ Λαφάργκ σοκάρει τους ομοϊδεάτες του διακηρύσσοντας το δικαίωμα στην τεμπελιά: η πολυπόθητη μισθωτή εργασία που ενθαρρύνεται από τη θρησκευτική ηθική για να θρέψει τον καπιταλισμό δεν είναι παρά ένα καθεστώς ... Read more

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  • The Right to Be Lazy

    by Paul Lafargue ...
    Translated by Charles Kerr ...
    Series series ERIS gems
    “In capitalist society work is the cause of all intellectual degeneracy, of all organic deformity.”Paul Lafargue’s The Right to Be Lazy spells out with unrivalled clarity the damage inflicted by the myth that endless work is morally virtuous. Presenting an inspiring vision of social equality and of individual human fulfilment, Lafargue’s text remains one of the most powerful denunciations of ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Right to Be Lazy, and Other Studies

    Enriched edition.

    by Paul Lafargue, Jared Black ...
    Translated by Charles H. Kerr ...
    In "The Right to Be Lazy, and Other Studies," Paul Lafargue presents a provocative examination of labor, leisure, and the meaning of work within a capitalist society. Written in a spirited yet analytical style, Lafargue's book critiques the bourgeois work ethic that valorizes constant toil and subjugates the human spirit. Drawing upon Marxist principles, he argues for the inherent value of ... Read more

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  • Songs in the Key of My Life

    A Memoir

    by Ferentz Lafargue ...
    “Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.” —Stevie Wonder, “Sir Duke”In 2003, young professor Ferentz LaFargue traveled to Paris, where his fiancée, Tricia, declared she wasn’t happy with their relationship, ending what he thought was a wonderful engagement. After days of “craying”—“that sorrow-laden blend of crying and praying delivered in perfect pitch by those in ... Read more

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