Project Gutenberg 2016-09-05 Public domain in the USA. 119 Lafargue, Paul 1842 1911 Kerr, Charles H. 1860 1944 07023081 Le droit à la paresse. English The Right to Be Lazy, and Other Studies 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. 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) "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.) en Socialism Social problems Working class Hours of labor HD Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Politics Browsing: Sociology 264374 264376 2024-09-22T05:46:22.714870 2023-09-23T04:24:36.611504 text/html text/html 265772 2016-09-04T21:04:02 text/html; charset=utf-8 197933 2016-09-04T21:04:02 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 226570 2024-09-22T05:46:27.359822 application/epub+zip 224988 2024-09-22T05:46:23.531819 application/epub+zip 175188 2024-09-22T05:46:23.123840 application/epub+zip 298368 2024-09-22T05:46:30.412824 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 272254 2024-09-22T05:46:26.866808 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 222576 2022-09-24T04:15:06.693456 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 229957 229745 2024-09-22T05:46:22.255842 2023-09-23T04:24:36.115523 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 230160 2016-09-04T21:03:58 text/plain; charset=utf-8 88008 2016-09-04T21:04:02 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 19888 2024-09-22T05:46:30.553776 application/rdf+xml 19627 2024-09-22T05:46:23.209832 image/jpeg 2599 2024-09-22T05:46:23.166819 image/jpeg 197544 2024-09-22T05:46:22.739852 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia