{"product_id":"right-to-be-lazy-and-other-writings","title":"Right to Be Lazy: And Other Writings","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eRight to Be Lazy: And Other Writings\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003ePaul Lafargue\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781681376820\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eNYRB Classics\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2022\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow in a new translation, a classic nineteenth-century defense for the cause of idleness by a revolutionary writer and activist (and Karl Marx's son-in law) that reshaped European ideas of labor and production.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExuberant, provocative, and as controversial as when it first appeared in 1880, Paul Lafargue's \u003ci\u003eThe Right to Be Lazy\u003c\/i\u003e is a call for the workers of the world to unite--and stop working so much! Lafargue, Karl Marx's son-in-law (about whom Marx once said, \"If he is a Marxist, then I am clearly not\") wrote his pamphlet on the virtues of laziness while in prison for giving a socialist speech. At once a timely argument for a three-hour workday and a classical defense of leisure, \u003ci\u003eThe Right to Be Lazy\u003c\/i\u003e shifted the course of European thought, going through seventeen editions in Russia during the Revolution of 1905 and helping shape John Maynard Keynes's ideas about overproduction. Published here with a selection of Lafargue's other writings--including an essay on Victor Hugo and a memoir of Marx--\u003ci\u003eThe Right to Be Lazy\u003c\/i\u003e reminds us that the urge to work is not always beneficial, let alone necessary. It can also be a \"strange madness\" consuming human lives.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Right to Be Lazy: And Other Writings | Paul Lafargue | Paperback | 9781681376820 | New | Politics 1479713","offer_id":50566565626114,"sku":"1479713","price":30.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/51KLf3Ce8dL.jpg?v=1790791753","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/right-to-be-lazy-and-other-writings","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}