by Paul Lafargue · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782910233303
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«Le Droit à la paresse» is Paul Lafargue's essay of social criticism, published by Mille et une Nuits in paperback format (79 pages, in French).
Written in 1880, this satirical essay attacks the work ethic inherited from capitalism and the Church. Lafargue argues that the «love of work» has impoverished workers and corrupted their faculties, and rejects claiming the right to work as an error; instead he proposes the right to laziness: reducing the working day and distributing leisure as a common good, so that each person's time does not belong to machines.
This French edition includes an afterword and bibliographic references.
For readers of political philosophy and social history, and for anyone seeking a short, provocative classic of the critique of work.
Paul Lafargue was a Cuban-born French political writer, economist, journalist, literary critic, and activist. His best known work is The Right to Be Lazy. Born in Cuba to French and Creole parents, Lafargue spent most of his life in France, with periods in England and Spain.
