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LoC No.: 07023081

Uniform Title: Le droit à la paresse. English

Title: The Right to Be Lazy, and Other Studies

Note: Reading ease score: 49.4 (College-level). Difficult to read.

Contents: The right to be lazy -- Socialism and the intellectuals -- The bankruptcy of capitalism -- The woman question -- The socialist ideal -- The rights of the horse and the rights of man.

Credits: Produced by Turgut Dincer, Christian Boissonnas and the
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Summary: "The Right to Be Lazy and Other Studies" by Paul Lafargue is a critical work written in the late 19th century. This treatise challenges the capitalist glorification of labor, advocating instead for the value of idleness and leisure. In this book, Lafargue critiques the societal norms surrounding work and its impact on the labor class, arguing that labor is a source of misery rather than fulfillment. At the start of the work, Lafargue's tone is both passionate and confrontational as he presents his argument against the dogma of work that he claims enslaves the proletariat. He references historical perspectives on labor, contrasting the disdain for toil in ancient societies with the modern obsession with work that has caused degeneration among the working class. Through compelling rhetoric, he highlights the contradictions of capitalist ethics and calls for a return to a lifestyle that values leisure and enjoyment, proposing that true liberation for the working class lies in a revolution against the ethics of labor that have dictated their lives. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Author: Lafargue, Paul, 1842-1911

Translator: Kerr, Charles H., 1860-1944

EBook No.: 52984

Published: Sep 5, 2016

Downloads: 132

Language: English

Subject: Socialism

Subject: Social problems

Subject: Working class

Subject: Hours of labor

LoCC: Social sciences: Economic history and conditions, Production

Category: Text

Rights: Public domain in the USA.

This edition has images.

LoC No.: 07023081

Uniform Title: Le droit à la paresse. English

Title: The Right to Be Lazy, and Other Studies

Note: Reading ease score: 49.4 (College-level). Difficult to read.

Contents: The right to be lazy -- Socialism and the intellectuals -- The bankruptcy of capitalism -- The woman question -- The socialist ideal -- The rights of the horse and the rights of man.

Credits: Produced by Turgut Dincer, Christian Boissonnas and the
Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http: //www.pgdp.net
(This file was produced from images generously made
available by The Internet Archive)

Summary: "The Right to Be Lazy and Other Studies" by Paul Lafargue is a critical work written in the late 19th century. This treatise challenges the capitalist glorification of labor, advocating instead for the value of idleness and leisure. In this book, Lafargue critiques the societal norms surrounding work and its impact on the labor class, arguing that labor is a source of misery rather than fulfillment. At the start of the work, Lafargue's tone is both passionate and confrontational as he presents his argument against the dogma of work that he claims enslaves the proletariat. He references historical perspectives on labor, contrasting the disdain for toil in ancient societies with the modern obsession with work that has caused degeneration among the working class. Through compelling rhetoric, he highlights the contradictions of capitalist ethics and calls for a return to a lifestyle that values leisure and enjoyment, proposing that true liberation for the working class lies in a revolution against the ethics of labor that have dictated their lives. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Author: Lafargue, Paul, 1842-1911

Translator: Kerr, Charles H., 1860-1944

EBook No.: 52984

Published: Sep 5, 2016

Downloads: 132

Language: English

Subject: Socialism

Subject: Social problems

Subject: Working class

Subject: Hours of labor

LoCC: Social sciences: Economic history and conditions, Production

Category: Text

Rights: Public domain in the USA.