9781681376820 - The Right to Be Lazy - Paul Lafargue Taschenbuch

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Collection of stories by Paul Lafargu including The Right to Be Lazy A Capitalist Catechism The Legend of Victor Hugo and Memories of Karl Marx. 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. Born in Cuba on January 15 1842 Lafargue was a child of the New World although he was a citizen of France. Educated and trained as a physician he found his true calling as a revolutionary a speaker writer agitator and organizer on behalf of French working people. He took an active part in the Paris Commune and was one of the founders of the party of revolutionary socialists in France. He held public office and represented the French workers at international congresses. He also spent time in French jails--

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