# The Right to Be Lazy

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- Authors: [Paul Lafargue](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-lafargue), [Lucy Sante](https://www.bookquiver.com/lucy-sante), [Alex Andriesse](https://www.bookquiver.com/alex-andriesse)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2022-11-15

## Description

Now 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....

## Editions

### The Right to Be Lazy

- Publisher: nyrb_classics
- ISBN: 978-16-8137-682-0
- Pages: 136
- Published: 2022-11-15
- Language: en_US