Il diritto all'ozio

by Paul Lafargue

Paperback, 2018

Status

Available

Call number

331.25

Genres

Collection

Pensiero Politico e Filosofia

Publication

Garzanti Libri (2018), 94 pages

Description

Ethics. Politics. Nonfiction. HTML: Loafers, loungers, and malingers of the world, this is your manifesto. Though it may sound like little more than a slacker's bill of rights, Paul Lafargue's The Right to Be Lazy is actually a carefully considered philosophical defense of a life free of the demands of labor that is carried out purely in the service of capitalism. The thinker was true to his belief system, dying in a joint suicide pact with his wife (who happened to be Karl Marx's daughter) at the age of 69 to avoid burdening his family..

User reviews

LibraryThing member 39again

This book is the perfect example of the echo chamber of history. When you get down to the nuts & bolts of it, the very themes the author is talking about in this book is repeating itself now. The war on women, religion is bad for you, the need for unionized labor, class warfare, evil capitalism.

Will we never learn? This book is like swallowing a spoonful of cod liver oil with sugar on it.

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LibraryThing member kcshankd

The opening satire was not a strong or well-done as I had hoped, after reading it I felt there is a reason why it is not as well known as Candide or A Modest Proposal. Perhaps that was too much to expect, but the subject matter is ripe for such an effort.

I gave up on the Victor Hugo essay after a

few pages, as I just don't care about how he was lionized in death.

The closing hagiography on Marx was.. fine.

Won't be keeping my copy, onto the re-sale pile.

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