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THE RIGHT TO BE LAZY - PAUL LAFARGUE TASCHENBUCH

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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