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Paul Lafargue

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Lafargue, Paul
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Date of birth
1842-01-15
Place of birth
Cuba
Date of death
1911-11-26
Place of death
France

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Paul Lafargue (French: [lafaʁg]; 15 January 1842 – 25 November 1911) was a Cuban-born French political writer, economist, journalist, literary critic, and activist; he was Karl Marx's son-in-law, having married his second daughter, Laura. His best known work is The Right to Be Lazy. Born in Cuba to French and Creole parents, Lafargue spent most of his life in France, with periods in England and Spain. At the age of 69, he and 66-year-old Laura died together by a suicide pact.

Lafargue was the subject of a famous quotation by Karl Marx. Soon before Marx died in 1883, he wrote a letter to Lafargue and the French Workers' Party organizer Jules Guesde, both of whom already claimed to represent "Marxist" principles. Marx accused them of "revolutionary phrase-mongering" and of denying the value of reformist struggles. This exchange is the source of Marx's remark, reported by Friedrich Engels, "ce qu'il y a de certain c'est que moi, je ne suis pas Marxiste" ("If one thing is certain, I am not a Marxist").

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French revolutionary Marxist socialist journalist, literary critic, political writer and activist.

Last modified: 2020-10-11 (revision #32175)

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Goodreads Author ID
13767
ISNI
0000 0001 2096 2555
LibraryThing Author
lafarguepaul
OpenLibrary Author ID
OL37207A
VIAF
61610596
Wikidata ID
Q317152

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