The Right to Be Lazy
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The Right to Be Lazy is a book by Paul Lafargue, published in 1883. In it, Lafargue, a French socialist, opposes the labour movement's fight to expand wage labour rather than abolish or at least limit
Paul Lafargue, Le Droit à la paresse
Lafargue proclaimed the right to be lazy.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was a German philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic. He was a representative of the Enlightenment. His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the de
The Right to Be Lazy
…preposterous. In the book, Lafargue proposes the right to be lazy, in contrast to the right to work, which he deems bourgeois. After an initial quote from Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ("Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy"), the book's introduction reads: "A strange delusion possesses the…
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, by Anton Graff 1771
Wife Eva Lessing
House, Wolfenbüttel
Grave, Brunswick