by Paul Lafargue · Editorial Teorema · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789726959533
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In an era where the religion of work demands increasing sacrifices from its followers, reading 'The Right to be Lazy' (1880) is a salutary capital sin. Written by Paul Lafargue in prison with great irony, this classic and iconoclastic essay challenges the devotion to work that gripped the workers of the time, questioning the universality and historicity of this absurd zeal in a society where individuals abstain from their free time in the name of overproduction and obsessive accumulation. An essential read for the current times, 'The Right to be Lazy' is an eloquent manifesto against the vice of work, which corrupts human faculties, and in defense of the fundamental freedom to use our time as we please.
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.
