Η Θρησκεία του κεφαλαίου

by Paul Lafargue, Αλέξανδρος Βέλιος (Translator)

Les progrès du socialisme inquiètent les classes possédantes d’Europe et d’Amérique. Il y a quelques mois, des hommes venus de tous les pays civilisés se réunissaient à Londres, afin de rechercher ensemble les moyens les plus efficaces d’arrêter le dangereux envahissement des idées socialistes. On remarquait parmi les représentants de la bourgeoisie capitaliste de l’Angleterre, lord Salisbury, Chamberlain, Samuel Morley, lord Randolph Churchill, Herbert Spencer, le cardinal Manning. Le prince de Bismarck, retenu par une crise alcoolique, avait envoyé son conseiller intime, le juif Bleichrœder. Les grands industriels et les financiers des deux mondes, Vanderbilt, Rothschild, Gould, Soubeyran, Krupp, Dollfus, Dietz-Monin, Schneider assistaient en personne, ou s’étaient fait remplacer par des hommes de confiance...

Genres: Politics, Nonfiction, Economics

181 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1887

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Kersplebedeb · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Karel · Rating 4 out of 5]

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