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The Right to Be Lazy
1883 book by Paul Lafargue
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.