The Right to Be Lazy: And Other Writings

by Paul Lafargue

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1681376822
• ISBN13: 9781681376820
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 8.0"