The Right to Be Lazy
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| - | '''''The Right To Be Lazy''''' is an essay by [[Cuba]]n-born [[France|French]] revolutionary [[Marxist]] [[Paul Lafargue]], written from his prison cell in [[Saint Pélagie]] in [[1883]]. It polemicizes heavily against contemporary [[Liberal]], [[Conservatism|Conservative]] and even [[Socialist]] ideas of work. Lafargues criticizes these ideas from a Marxist perspective as dogmatic and ultimately false by portraying the degeneration and enslavement of human existence when being subsumed under the primacy of the "right to work", and argues that [[laziness]], combined with human [[creativity]], is an important source of human progress. | + | '''''The Right To Be Lazy''''' is an essay by [[Cuba]]n-born [[France|French]] revolutionary [[Marxist]] [[Paul Lafargue]], written from his cell in [[Sainte-Pélagie Prison]] in [[1883]]. It polemicizes heavily against contemporary [[Liberal]], [[Conservatism|Conservative]] and even [[Socialist]] ideas of work. Lafargues criticizes these ideas from a Marxist perspective as dogmatic and ultimately false by portraying the degeneration and enslavement of human existence when being subsumed under the primacy of the "right to work", and argues that [[laziness]], combined with human [[creativity]], is an important source of human progress. |
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The Right To Be Lazy is an essay by Cuban-born French revolutionary Marxist Paul Lafargue, written from his cell in Sainte-Pélagie Prison in 1883. It polemicizes heavily against contemporary Liberal, Conservative and even Socialist ideas of work. Lafargues criticizes these ideas from a Marxist perspective as dogmatic and ultimately false by portraying the degeneration and enslavement of human existence when being subsumed under the primacy of the "right to work", and argues that laziness, combined with human creativity, is an important source of human progress.
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