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The Right To Be Lazy
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Author : Paul Lafargue
language : en
Publisher: Pattern Books
Release Date : 2020-06-28
The Right To Be Lazy written by Paul Lafargue and has been published by Pattern Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-28 with Political Science categories.
Originally published in 1883, Paul Lafargue says this word here and another word here to pad out the description to make it at least 200 characters long. Yes, I know it is still not at 200 characters long. This is a Radical Reprint book, please steal this book, please just take the files from Internet Archive and just redistribute the book yourself if you want. Okay, cool, the description has been finished.
The Right To Be Lazy
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Author : Paul Lafargue
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
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Author : Paul Lafargue
language : en
Publisher: Fv Editions
Release Date : 2021-02-10
The Right To Be Lazy written by Paul Lafargue and has been published by Fv Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-10 with categories.
"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.
The Right To Be Lazy And Other Studies
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Author : Paul Lafargue
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 2020-09-28
The Right To Be Lazy And Other Studies written by Paul Lafargue and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-28 with categories.
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 wheel, and behold the axle tree, shaken, turning with its spokes and making the heavy rolling stone revolve. Let us live the life of our fathers, and let us rejoice in idleness over the gifts that the goddess grants us." Alas!, the leisure which the pagan poet announced has not come. The blind, perverse and murderous passion for work transforms the liberating machine into an instrument for the enslavement of free men. Its productiveness impoverishes them. A good workingwoman makes with her needles only five meshes a minute, while certain circular knitting machines make 30,000 in the same time. Every minute of the machine is thus equivalent to a hundred hours of the workingwomen's labor, or again, every minute of the machine's labor, gives the workingwomen ten days of rest. What is true for the knitting industry is more or less true for all industries reconstructed by modern machinery. But what do we see? In proportion as the machine is improved and performs man's work with an ever increasing rapidity and exactness, the laborer, instead of prolonging his former rest times, redoubles his ardor, as if he wished to rival the machine. O, absurd and murderous competition! That the competition of man and the machine might have free course, the proletarians have abolished wise laws which limited the labor of the artisans of the ancient guilds; they have suppressed the holidays. Because the producers of that time worked but five days out of seven, are we to believe the stories told by lying economists, that they lived on nothing but air and fresh water? Not so, they had leisure to taste the joys of earth, to make love and to frolic, to banquet joyously in honor of the jovial god of idleness. Gloomy England, immersed in protestantism, was then called "Merrie England." Rabelais, Quevedo, Cervantes, and the unknown authors of the romances make our mouths water with their pictures of those monumental feasts with which the men of that time regaled themselves between two battles and two devastations, in which everything "went by the barrel". Jordaens and the Flemish School have told the story of these feasts in their delightful pictures. Where, O, where, are the sublime gargantuan stomachs of those days; where are the sublime brains encircling all human thought? We have indeed grown puny and degenerate. Embalmed beef, potatoes, doctored wine and Prussian schnaps, judiciously combined with compulsory labor have weakened our bodies and narrowed our minds. And the times when man cramps his stomach and the machine enlarges its output are the very times when the economists preach to us the Malthusian theory, the religion of abstinence and the dogma of work. Really it would be better to pluck out such tongues and throw them to the dogs.
The Right To Be Lazy
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Author : Paul Lafargue
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2022-11-15
The Right To Be Lazy written by Paul Lafargue and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-15 with Philosophy categories.
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! Lafargue, Karl Marx’s son-in-law (about whom Marx once said, “If he is a Marxist, then I am clearly not”) wrote his pamphlet on the virtues of laziness while in prison for giving a socialist speech. At once a timely argument for a three-hour workday and a classical defense of leisure, The Right to Be Lazy shifted the course of European thought, going through seventeen editions in Russia during the Revolution of 1905 and helping shape John Maynard Keynes’s ideas about overproduction. Published here with a selection of Lafargue’s other writings—including an essay on Victor Hugo and a memoir of Marx—The Right to Be Lazy reminds us that the urge to work is not always beneficial, let alone necessary. It can also be a “strange madness” consuming human lives.
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Author : Paul Lafargue
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-02-11
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Author : Paul Lafargue
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
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Summary The Right To Be Lazy By Paul Lafargue
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Author : Shortcut Edition
language : en
Publisher: Shortcut Edition
Release Date : 2021-06-17
Summary The Right To Be Lazy By Paul Lafargue written by Shortcut Edition and has been published by Shortcut Edition this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-17 with Business & Economics categories.
* Our summary is short, simple and pragmatic. It allows you to have the essential ideas of a big book in less than 30 minutes. By reading this summary you will discover the revolutionary vision of Paul Lafargue's work. You will also discover : that work has not always been an obligation; that he fought against the moralists and economists of the 18th and 19th centuries; that the working masses allowed themselves to be indoctrinated by the sacralization of work; the solutions provided by Paul Lafargue. Paul Lafargue was born in Cuba in 1842 and arrived in Paris with his family in 1859. He studied medicine, but soon developed a passion for politics. Initially on the Republican side, he quickly supported the workers, who were, in his opinion, the only possible motor for radical change that would fight against class inequality and exploitation at work. In 1881, he published "The Right to Laziness". Thanks to this work, his ideas spread all over the world, particularly in Russia and England. Even today, they still seem to be relevant today. What are these ideas? *Buy now the summary of this book for the modest price of a cup of coffee!
The Right To Be Lazy
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Author : Paul Lafargue
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
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The Right To Be Lazy
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Author : Paul Vangelisti
language : en
Publisher: Green Integer
Release Date : 2000-11
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"RIBOT "has established itself over the past 10 years as one of the most exciting literary and arts publications from around the world. In this appearance, the annual will address the problematic of leisure or idleness in our ravenously consumptive, multi-national society, as originally explored by Paul Lafargue's notorious 1883 essay from St. Pelagie prison. Contributors include Amiri Baraka, John Baldessari, Guy Bennett, Frank Chin, Jeff Clark, Norma Cole, Corrado Costa, Douglas Messerli, Dennis Phillips, Leslie Scalapino, and many others.