Project Gutenberg 2016-09-05 Public domain in the USA. 235 Lafargue, Paul 1842 1911 Kerr, Charles H. 1860 1944 07023081 Le droit à la paresse. English The Right to Be Lazy, and Other Studies Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_to_Be_Lazy The right to be lazy -- Socialism and the intellectuals -- The bankruptcy of capitalism -- The woman question -- The socialist ideal -- The rights of the horse and the rights of man. Produced by Turgut Dincer, Christian Boissonnas and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "The Right to Be Lazy and Other Studies" by Paul Lafargue is a critical work written in the late 19th century. This treatise challenges the capitalist glorification of labor, advocating instead for the value of idleness and leisure. In this book, Lafargue critiques the societal norms surrounding work and its impact on the labor class, arguing that labor is a source of misery rather than fulfillment. At the start of the work, Lafargue's tone is both passionate and confrontational as he presents his argument against the dogma of work that he claims enslaves the proletariat. He references historical perspectives on labor, contrasting the disdain for toil in ancient societies with the modern obsession with work that has caused degeneration among the working class. Through compelling rhetoric, he highlights the contradictions of capitalist ethics and calls for a return to a lifestyle that values leisure and enjoyment, proposing that true liberation for the working class lies in a revolution against the ethics of labor that have dictated their lives. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 49.4 (College-level). Difficult to read. en Socialism Social problems Working class Hours of labor HD Text Category: Philosophy & Ethics Category: Sociology 264435 2025-07-21T07:37:13.345082 text/html 245316 2024-10-23T01:05:00 text/html 226593 2025-07-21T07:37:17.589000 application/epub+zip 224953 2025-07-21T07:37:14.104045 application/epub+zip 175155 2025-07-21T07:37:13.716042 application/epub+zip 298355 2025-07-21T07:37:20.364028 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 272342 2025-07-21T07:37:17.128037 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 222576 2022-09-24T04:15:06.693456 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 229783 2025-07-21T07:37:12.994107 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 209823 2024-10-23T01:05:00 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18742 2025-07-21T07:37:20.503998 application/rdf+xml 19627 2025-07-21T07:37:13.800023 image/jpeg 2599 2025-07-21T07:37:13.758051 image/jpeg 197568 2025-07-21T07:37:13.369031 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia