Τα τρία κείμενα που περιλαμβάνονται στην παρούσα έκδοση (Η χρεοκοπία του καπιταλισμού, Τα δικαιώματα του αλόγου και τα δικαιώματα του ανθρώπου. Το σοσιαλιστικό ιδανικό) μεταφράστηκαν από την αγγλική έκδοση The Right to be Lazy and Other Studies, σε αγγλική μετάφραση του Charles Kerr.
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.