The Right to Be Lazy: And Other Writings - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Paul Lafargue, Alex Andriesse (Translator), Lucy Sante (Introduction by)Publish date:2022-11-15Pages:136
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781681376820ISBN-10:1681376822UPC:9781681376820Book Category:Political Science, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Political Ideologies, Labor & Industrial Relations, PoliticalBook Topic:Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismSize:7.97 x 5.09 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCT13MKRXR
The Right to Be Lazy: And Other Writings
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781681376820ISBN-10:1681376822UPC:9781681376820Book Category:Political Science, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Political Ideologies, Labor & Industrial Relations, PoliticalBook Topic:Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismSize:7.97 x 5.09 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCT13MKRXR
Paul Lafargue (1842-1911) was born in Santiago, Cuba, and lived there until the age of nine, when his family returned to their hometown of Bordeaux, France. In his early twenties, Lafargue began studying medicine in Paris, but after participating in a socialist gathering was barred from the French university system and left the country to continue his studies in London. There, he served as Karl...
Publisher: New York Review of Books
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Paul Lafargue, Alex Andriesse (Translator), Lucy Sante (Introduction by)
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