Paul Lafargue
writer, journalist, literary critic and revolutionary; also known for being Karl Marx's son-in-law (1842-1911)
Paul Lafargue (January 15, 1842 – November 26, 1911) was a French revolutionary Marxist socialist journalist, literary critic, political writer and activist; he was Karl Marx's son-in-law, having married his second daughter Laura Marx.
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Quotes
edit- When, in our civilized Europe, we would find a trace of the native beauty of man, we must go seek it in the nations where economic prejudices have not yet uprooted the hatred of work. … The Greeks in their era of greatness had only contempt for work: their slaves alone were permitted to labor: the free man knew only exercises for the body and mind. … The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods.
- The Right to Be Lazy (1883), H. Kerr, trans. (1907), pp. 11-12
- Jehovah … gave his worshippers the supreme example of ideal laziness; after six days of work, he rests for all eternity.
- The Right to Be Lazy (1883), H. Kerr, trans. (1907), pp. 12-13
- Philanthropy means to steal wholesale, and give away retail.
- The Religion of Capital (1887), New York Labor News (1918), p. 22
- The blood of three oppressed races runs in my veins.
- As quoted in Derfler, Leslie (1991). Paul Lafargue and the Founding of French Marxism, 1842-1882. Harvard University Press. p. 11.
- I am proudest of my Negro extraction.
- As quoted in Derfler, Leslie (1991). Paul Lafargue and the Founding of French Marxism, 1842-1882. Harvard University Press. p. 15.
