Paul Lafargue

thumb|Jehovah … gave his worshippers the supreme example of ideal laziness; after six days of work, he rests for all eternity. 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. Quotes 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 Paul Lafargue and the Founding of French Marxism, 1842-1882 Derfler Leslie Harvard University Press 1991 11 https://books.google.com/books?id=L_E_OR6owEEC&pg=PA11 I am proudest of my Negro extraction. As quoted in Paul Lafargue and the Founding of French Marxism, 1842-1882 Derfler Leslie Harvard University Press 1991 15 https://books.google.com/books?id=L_E_OR6owEEC&pg=PA15 External links Category:1842 births Category:1911 deaths Category:Philosophers from France Category:Journalists from France Category:Literary critics Category:Marxists Category:Revolutionaries Category:Political activists Category:Essayists from France Category:Suicides Category:Joint suicides Category:People from Cuba