Paul Lafargue
French revolutionary Marxist socialist and Karl Marx's son-in-law.Lafargue was born in Cuba to French and Creole parents. Karl Marx even once reffered to him by the n-word.
Lafargue his main work was called the right to be lazy. In which he calls upon not only the right to work, but also the right to be lazy. At the beginning of that book he claimed that the African slaves lived under better circumstances than the European worker.
At 69 he died together with his wife Laura in a suicide pact.
“Yoksul uluslarda halkın rahatı yerindedir.Zengin uluslardaysa, halk, genellikle yoksuldur.”
Paul Lafargue
“Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.”
Paul Lafargue
“In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler’s increases, the actual power is concentrated and becomes the monopoly of a smaller and smaller group of individuals.”
Paul Lafargue