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Back in 1883, Karl Marx’s son-in-law Paul Lafargue, got himself banged up in prison for making a speech in favour of socialism. Not one to waste time, he spent his days in jail putting the finishing touches to his most famous essay, The Right to Be Lazy.
In what is now recognised as a classic, and prescient, work of socialist thought, he praised leisure, advocated a three-hour working day and called for stiff penalties for anyone found working longer hours.
“Far better were it to scatter pestilence and to poison the springs than to erect a capitalist factory in the midst of a
rural population. Introduce factory work, and farewell joy, health and liberty; farewell to all that makes life beautiful and worth living."
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