The Right to Be Lazy
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The Right to Be Lazy is an 1883 socialist essay by Paul Lafargue that criticizes the work ethic of industrial capitalism and advocates for leisure as a fundamental human right.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Right to Be Lazy canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9124302 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Right to Be Lazy Context triple: [Paul Lafargue, notableWork, The Right to Be Lazy]
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The Importance of Being Idle
"The Importance of Being Idle" is a Britpop song by the English rock band Oasis, released as a single from their 2005 album "Don't Believe the Truth" and known for its retro, Kinks-inspired sound and wry lyrics about laziness and apathy.
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B.
The Book of Right-On
"The Book of Right-On" is a song by Joanna Newsom, known for its intricate harp accompaniment and idiosyncratic, poetic lyrics.
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C.
The Very Idea
The Very Idea is a 1920 American silent comedy film, now considered lost, that satirized contemporary notions of eugenics and scientific matchmaking.
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D.
Glad to Be Unhappy
"Glad to Be Unhappy" is a melancholy standard from the Rodgers and Hart songbook that has been widely recorded in jazz and pop interpretations.
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E.
The Free Lunch Is Over
The Free Lunch Is Over is a widely cited 2005 essay by Herb Sutter arguing that the end of automatic performance gains from increasing CPU clock speeds would force software developers to embrace concurrency and parallelism.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Right to Be Lazy Target entity description: The Right to Be Lazy is an 1883 socialist essay by Paul Lafargue that criticizes the work ethic of industrial capitalism and advocates for leisure as a fundamental human right.
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A.
The Importance of Being Idle
"The Importance of Being Idle" is a Britpop song by the English rock band Oasis, released as a single from their 2005 album "Don't Believe the Truth" and known for its retro, Kinks-inspired sound and wry lyrics about laziness and apathy.
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B.
The Book of Right-On
"The Book of Right-On" is a song by Joanna Newsom, known for its intricate harp accompaniment and idiosyncratic, poetic lyrics.
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C.
The Very Idea
The Very Idea is a 1920 American silent comedy film, now considered lost, that satirized contemporary notions of eugenics and scientific matchmaking.
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D.
Glad to Be Unhappy
"Glad to Be Unhappy" is a melancholy standard from the Rodgers and Hart songbook that has been widely recorded in jazz and pop interpretations.
-
E.
The Free Lunch Is Over
The Free Lunch Is Over is a widely cited 2005 essay by Herb Sutter arguing that the end of automatic performance gains from increasing CPU clock speeds would force software developers to embrace concurrency and parallelism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
essay
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socialist essay ⓘ |
| author | Paul Lafargue ⓘ |
| circulation | socialist press ⓘ |
| copyrightStatus | public domain ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| describedBySource | socialist theory ⓘ |
| genre | Marxist literature ⓘ |
| hasPart |
argument for enjoyment of life
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critique of bourgeois morality ⓘ discussion of machinery and productivity ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
alienation of labor
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critique of capitalist production ⓘ emancipation of the working class ⓘ human fulfillment beyond work ⓘ |
| hasTranslation |
English
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German ⓘ Italian ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| influenced |
anti-work philosophy
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critiques of work in the 20th century ⓘ later socialist thought ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Karl Marx
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scientific socialism ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
socialist activists
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working class ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 19th-century political literature ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
critique of work ethic
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industrial capitalism ⓘ leisure ⓘ socialism ⓘ workers' rights ⓘ |
| movement |
Marxism
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socialist movement ⓘ |
| notableQuoteAbout | condemnation of the "dogma of work" ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Le Droit à la paresse ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
advocacy of leisure as a right
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critique of Protestant work ethic ⓘ critique of overwork ⓘ critique of wage labor ⓘ support for reduction of working hours ⓘ |
| publicationType | pamphlet ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1883 ⓘ |
| timePeriodDescribed | 19th-century industrial society ⓘ |
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