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The Right to Be Lazy

by Paul Lafargue

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Marx’s son-in-law wrote the most enjoyable polemic in socialist literature: an assault not on capitalism’s exploitation but on the working class’s own love of labour, which he calls a delusion more ruinous than any imposed on them. He demands a three-hour day and means it.

The funniest pamphlet the socialist movement ever produced. Download the free EPUB.

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