Carolina Gutierrez

“No, the contrary of acedia is not the spirit of work in the sense of the work of every day, of earning one's living; it is man's happy and cheerful affirmation of his own being, his acquiescence in the world and in God, which is to say love. Love that certainly brings a particular freshness and readiness to work along with it, but that no one with the least experience could conceivably confuse with the tense activity of the fanatical 'worker.”
― Josef Pieper, Leisure: The Basis of Culture

“Confronted with this double madness of the labourers killing themselves with over-production and vegetating in abstinence, the great problem of capitalist production is no longer to find producers and to multiply their powers but to discover consumers, to excite their appetites and create in them fictitious needs.”
― Paul Lafargue, The Right to Be Lazy

“Work has been relatively neglected not only as a practice productive of hierarchies— a scene of gendering, racialization and becoming classed— but as an arena in which to develop and purse a freedom-centered politics.”
― Kathi Weeks, The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries

“The bourgeoisie, when it was struggling against the nobility sustained by the clergy, hoisted the flag of free thought and atheism; but once triumphant, it changed its tone and manner and today it uses religion to support its economic and political supremacy”
― Paul Lafargue, The Right to Be Lazy