Official podcast of The Socialist Party of Great Britain. We have one single aim: the establishment of a society in which all productive resources – land, water, factories, transport, etc. – are taken into common ownership, and in which the sole motive for production is the fulfilment of human needs and wants.
In this episode, we talk about Paul Lafargue’s classic pamphlet ‘The Right To Be Lazy’. Is work the highest virtue? Would a society without work be possible or desirable? How much of what Lafargue wrote in the late 19th century is still relevant today?
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Featuring music: ‘Jungle Frequency With Heavy Tribal Percussion’ by Alex Morgan. Source: Free Music Archive, licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0
