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The Right to Laziness. By Paul Lafargue. Translated by Guðmundur J. Guðmundsson.
"Let us be lazy in all areas, except love and drinking, except laziness." This quote from the German writer Lessing is the opening words of the book The Right to Laziness.
The publication is one of the best-known socialist propaganda publications of the 19th century, with the exception of The Communist Address.
In this book, the author criticizes the long working day and the general worship of work. He argues that a shorter work week can increase productivity, which is never enough for the hardworking Icelanders. But this 130-year-old revivalist work is also a satire on the waste and greed of industrial society and therefore has a lot to say to us. It doesn't matter whether we look at the contemporary labor disputes here in Iceland or the growing environmental awareness and crisis of capitalism around the world in recent years.
The author Paul Lafargue was a Frenchman, a doctor by training but who worked most of his life in journalism and politics. He was the son-in-law of Karl Marx, married to his daughter Laura. On November 26, 1911, the couple committed suicide together, both in their seventies. Behind this decision lay idealistic reasons related to their hostility to traditional religious tenets and their belief in a worldly hedonistic lifestyle.
"Let us be lazy in all areas, except love and drinking, except laziness." This quote from the German writer Lessing is the opening words of the book The Right to Laziness.
The publication is one of the best-known socialist propaganda publications of the 19th century, with the exception of The Communist Address.
In this book, the author criticizes the long working day and the general worship of work. He argues that a shorter work week can increase productivity, which is never enough for the hardworking Icelanders. But this 130-year-old revivalist work is also a satire on the waste and greed of industrial society and therefore has a lot to say to us. It doesn't matter whether we look at the contemporary labor disputes here in Iceland or the growing environmental awareness and crisis of capitalism around the world in recent years.
The author Paul Lafargue was a Frenchman, a doctor by training but who worked most of his life in journalism and politics. He was the son-in-law of Karl Marx, married to his daughter Laura. On November 26, 1911, the couple committed suicide together, both in their seventies. Behind this decision lay idealistic reasons related to their hostility to traditional religious tenets and their belief in a worldly hedonistic lifestyle.