懒惰的权利及其他著作 The Right to Be Lazy: And Other Writings

基本信息

by Paul Lafargue (Author) , Alex Andriesse (Author)

Format:Paperback / softback 200 pages

Publisher:The New York Review of Books, Inc

Imprint:NYRB Classics

ISBN:9781681376820

Published:15 Nov 2022

Weight:160g

Dimensions:127 x 203 x 15 (mm)

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书籍简介

现在有了新的译本，这是一位革命作家和活动家（卡尔-马克思的女婿）在19世纪为懒惰事业所作的经典辩护，重塑了欧洲的劳动和生产观念。

保罗-拉法格的《偷懒的权利》热情洋溢，具有煽动性，与1880年出版时一样具有争议性，它呼吁全世界的工人团结起来--不要再做那么多工作了 拉法格是卡尔-马克思的女婿（关于他，马克思曾说："如果他是马克思主义者，那么我显然不是"），他在因发表社会主义演讲而被关进监狱时写下了关于懒惰的美德的小册子。懒惰的权利》既是对三小时工作制的及时论证，也是对休闲的经典辩护，它改变了欧洲思想的进程，在1905年革命期间在俄国经历了17个版本，并帮助约翰-梅纳德-凯恩斯形成了关于生产过剩的想法。这里出版的是拉法格的其他作品--包括一篇关于维克多-雨果的文章和一本关于马克思的回忆录--《偷懒的权利》提醒我们，工作的冲动并不总是有益的，更不用说必要的。它也可能是一种吞噬人类生命的 "奇怪的疯狂"。

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.

Exuberant, provocative, and as controversial as when it first appeared in 1880, Paul Lafargue's The Right to Be Lazy is a call for the workers of the world to unite--and stop working so much! Lafargue, Karl Marx's son-in-law (about whom Marx once said, "If he is a Marxist, then I am clearly not") wrote his pamphlet on the virtues of laziness while in prison for giving a socialist speech. At once a timely argument for a three-hour workday and a classical defense of leisure, The Right to Be Lazy shifted the course of European thought, going through seventeen editions in Russia during the Revolution of 1905 and helping shape John Maynard Keynes's ideas about overproduction. Published here with a selection of Lafargue's other writings--including an essay on Victor Hugo and a memoir of Marx--The Right to Be Lazy reminds us that the urge to work is not always beneficial, let alone necessary. It can also be a "strange madness" consuming human lives.

作者简介

保罗-拉法格（1842-1911）出生在古巴的圣地亚哥，在那里一直生活到9岁，后来他的家人回到了他们的家乡法国波尔多。二十多岁时，拉法格开始在巴黎学习医学，但在参加了一次社会主义集会后，被禁止进入法国大学系统，并离开该国，在伦敦继续学习。在那里，他担任了卡尔-马克思的秘书，并与马克思的女儿劳拉结婚。1870年，他回到法国，参加了巴黎公社，并再次被迫逃离该国，先到西班牙，后到英国。1882年共产党人获得后，他和劳拉回到了法国，在那里，拉法格作为政治和文学方面的小册子和文章的作者获得了声誉，建立了该国马克思主义劳工党，并获得了他的法律学位。1911年11月26日晚，他与劳拉在巴黎附近的家中 "理性自杀"。列宁在他们的葬礼上发表了讲话。

Paul Lafargue (1842-1911) was born in Santiago, Cuba, and lived there until the age of nine, when his family returned to their hometown of Bordeaux, France. In his early twenties, Lafargue began studying medicine in Paris, but after participating in a socialist gathering was barred from the French university system and left the country to continue his studies in London. There, he served as Karl Marx's secretary and married Marx's daughter Laura. Moving back to France in 1870, he participated in the Paris Commune and was again forced to flee the country, first to Spain and then to England. After was granted to the Communards in 1882, he and Laura returned permanently to France, where Lafargue gained notoriety as a writer of pamphlets and articles on politics and literature, founded the country's first Marxist labor party, and earned his law degree. On the night of November 26, 1911, he committed "rational suicide" with Laura at their home near Paris. Lenin spoke at their funeral.