The Right to Be Lazy

The Right to Be Lazy
AuthorPaul Lafargue
TranslatorCharles H. Kerr
LanguageFrench
Publication date
1883
Publication placeFrance
Lafargue proclaimed the right to be lazy.

The Right to Be Lazy (French: Le Droit à la paresse) 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 it. According to Lafargue, wage labour is tantamount to slavery, and to fight as a labour movement for the extension of slavery is preposterous.[1] In the book, Lafargue proposes the right to be lazy, in contrast to the right to work, which he deems bourgeois.

  1. ^ "Paul Lafargue: The Right To Be Lazy (1883)". www.marxists.org. Retrieved 27 October 2021.