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“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.”

Paul Lafargue

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.”

Paul Lafargue

The Right to Be Lazy (1883), H. Kerr, trans. (1907), pp. 12-13

“I am proudest of my Negro extraction.”

Paul Lafargue

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]

“The blood of three oppressed races runs in my veins.”

Paul Lafargue

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]

“Philanthropy means to steal wholesale, and give away retail.”

Paul Lafargue

The Religion of Capital (1887), New York Labor News (1918), p. 22