Every wage slave should read this book! Paul Lafargue (1842-1912), Karl Marx's flamboyant Cuban born son-in-law, wrote this essay for a workers' paper in 1880, and revised it for book publication while he was a political prisoner in France three years later. At once a masterpiece of critical theory and of rip-roaring radical humor, Lafargue's militant defense of the proletariat's right to laziness is directed not only against the so-called 'right to work' but against the entire slaveholders' ideology known as the 'work ethic.' In a provocative new Introduction, labor activist Joseph Jablonksi examines the managerial elite's current 'war on leisure' and highlights Lafargue's relevance to rank-and-file workers' struggles today. A bio-bibliographical essay by old-time IWW organizer and historian Fred Thompson provides useful historical background, the fullest sketch of Lafargue's life and work available in English, and an overview of subsequent literature on the problems of work and leisure.
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"Rather than a denial of work or an affirmation of leisure as an end in itself, The Right To Be Lazy [is] a celebration of life, or rather of what life could be: not merely recuperation from labor, but the essence of life itself." (Leslie Derfler) "Lafargue doesn't just denounce the 'religion of capital,' but all social systems based on work as the sole individual and social value." --Thierry Paquot in Le Monde diplomatique
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Original Language: French --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Stolen leisure,
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Fight for the right to have a good time and taking ease witheverything seems to be an utopia nowadays. Written in the 19thcentury, Lafargue's book, a Cuban socialist, and it's an splendid manifesto to protect this necessity so despised at the present time.
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LOTS of typos and errors in this book,
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This book was obviously scanned from another document and NEVER proofread at all. While the content was interesting, I found the poor quality and misspellings due to the scanning process very distracting. Whoever decided to copy and release this book should have taken the time to make the necessary corrections.
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Amen to that!,
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MOre of the working class needs to read this book and understand what the GREEDHEADS took away from us. Stop feeling like a failure becuase you are not making it in this man-made world! Rise up and fight the power! No Newts, or Mitts and god forbid....not Jebs!
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- Dancin' In The Streets!: Anarchists, IWWs, Surrealists, Situationists & Provos In The 1960s - As Recorded In The Pages Of The Rebel Worker & Heatwave (Sixties Series) by Franklin Rosemont on page 40, page 169, and Back Matter
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