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La Religion du capital

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La religion du Capital - cette « farce » savoureuse de l'auteur du Droit à la paresse publiée pour la première fois en 1887, est le compte-rendu d'un congrès international tenu à Londres, au cours duquel les représentants les plus éminents de la bourgeoisie rédigent les Actes d'une nouvelle religion pour ce Chaos qu'ils ont créé et ont décidé d'appeler « Monde civilisé ». Une nouvelle religion, susceptible non seulement « d'arrêter le dangereux envahissement des idées socialistes », mais capable de donner à ce monde chaotique et capitalistique une forme au moins apparemment définitive. Il faut bel et bien au Capital un Dieu propre, qui « amuse l'imagination de la bête populaire ».

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First published January 1, 1887

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Paul Lafargue

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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.

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Solid satire on both capitalism and religion. Starts out a bit slow but gets very exciting and witty after chapter 3
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