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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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Paul Lafargue's masterpiece, The Right To Be Lazy, at once funny and serious, witty and profound, elegant and forceful, is a logical expansion of The Right to the Pursuit of Happiness announced by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence. It was not only extremely popular but also brought about pragmatic results, inspiring the movement for the eight-hour day and equal pay for men and women who perform equal work. It survives as one of the very few pieces of writing to come out of the international socialist movement of the nineteenth century that is not only readable-even enjoyable-but pertinent. This new translation by Len Bracken, fuller than previous versions in English, is supplemented by Lafargue's little-known talk on The Intellectuals.
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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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Paul Lafargue's masterpiece, The Right To Be Lazy, at once funny and serious, witty and profound, elegant and forceful, is a logical expansion of The Right to the Pursuit of Happiness announced by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence. It was not only extremely popular but also brought about pragmatic results, inspiring the movement for the eight-hour day and equal pay for men and women who perform equal work. It survives as one of the very few pieces of writing to come out of the international socialist movement of the nineteenth century that is not only readable-even enjoyable-but pertinent. This new translation by Len Bracken, fuller than previous versions in English, is supplemented by Lafargue's little-known talk on The Intellectuals.
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Sometimes I have the feeling I am the only person who remembers a certain popular sociological cliche of the late fifties and sixties about the imminent arrival of the Age of Mass Leisure. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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