Paul Lafargue

A French revolutionary Marxist socialist and son-in-law of Karl Marx, Lafargue was born in Cuba to French and Creole parents. His seminal work, "The Right to Be Lazy," argues not only for the right to work but also for the right to idleness. In it, he provocatively suggested that enslaved Africans lived under better circumstances than European laborers, challenging prevailing notions of labor and progress. His writings offer a radical critique of the morality of work.