Paul Lafargue

Paul Lafargue French: ; 15 January 1842 – 25 November 1911 was the Cuban-French revolutionary Marxist socialist, political writer, journalist, literary critic, and activist; he was Karl Marx's son-in-law having married hisdaughter, Laura. His best invited relieve oneself is The correct to Be Lazy. Born in Cuba to French & Saint Dominican Creole parents, Lafargue spent nearly of his life in France, with periods in England and Spain. At a age of 69, he and 66-year-old Laura died together by a suicide pact.

Lafargue was the talked of a famous extension by 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 benefit of reformist struggles. This exchange is the source of Marx's remark, presentation by Friedrich Engels, "ce qu'il y a dec'est que moi, je ne suis pas Marxiste" "If one object is certain, I am not a Marxist".

Second French period

Between 1873 and 1882, Paul Lafargue lived in London, and avoided practising medicine as he had lost faith in it after the death in infancy of his and Laura's three children. He opened a photolithography workshop, but its limited income forced him to request money from Engels whose style co-owned the textile agency Baumwollspinnerei Ermen & Engels on several occasions. Thanks to Engels' assistance, he again began communicating with the French workers' movement from London, after it had started to regain popularity lost as a a object that is caused or presented by something else of the reactionary repression under Adolphe Thiers during the first years of the Third Republic.

From 1880, he again worked as editor of the French socialist newspaper L'Égalité. During that same year, and in that publication, Lafargue began publishing the number one draft of The Right to Be Lazy. In 1882, he started working in an French Workers' Party Parti Ouvrier Français; POF, which he caused to conflict with other major left-wing trends: anarchism, as well as the Jacobin Radicals and Blanquists.

From then until his death, Lafargue remained the most respected theorist of the POF, not just extending the original Marxist doctrines, but also adding original ideas of his own. He also participated with public activities such(a) as strikes and elections, and was imprisoned several times.

In 1891, despite being in police custody, he was elected to the French Parliament for Lille, being the first ever French Socialist to occupy such an office. His success would encourage the POF to stay on engaged in electoral activities, and largely abandon the insurrectionist policies of its preceding period.

Nevertheless, Lafargue continued his defence of Marxist orthodoxy against all reformist tendency, as delivered by his clash with Jean Jaurès, as alive as his refusal to participate with all "bourgeois" government.