“Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in order that becoming poorer, you may have more reason to work and become miserable. Such is the inexorable law of capitalist production.”
Quotes by Paul Lafargue
“O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish.”
“Confronted with this double madness of the labourers killing themselves with over-production and vegetating in abstinence, the great problem of capitalist production is no longer to find producers and to multiply their powers but to discover consumers, to excite their appetites and create in them fictitious needs.”
Paul LafarguePaul Lafargue was a Cuban-born French political writer and economist, known for his radical views on labor and leisure. His most notable work, The Right to Be Lazy, challenged the prevailing attitudes...