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Paul Lafargue medaillon
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Paul Lafargue 1869
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German Fehrenbach
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Lafargue, Paul (Monde illustré, 1891-11-14)
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拉法格

Lāfǎgé
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Lafargue (Paul Lafargue), French Marxist writer, son-in-law of Karl Marx

About Paul Lafargue

1842–1911 · 革命家 revolutionary

French socialist married to Laura, daughter of Karl Marx. His pamphlet 《懒惰权》 (The Right to Be Lazy, 1880) mocks the worship of work; in 1911 he and Laura ended their lives together.

Also called  保尔·拉法格

Examples

HSK 5
他写了一篇关于拉法格的论文。
Tā xiě le yì piān guānyú Lāfǎgé de lùnwén.
He wrote a paper on Lafargue.
HSK 7-9
拉法格是马克思的女婿。
Lāfǎgé shì Mǎkèsī de nǚxu.
Lafargue was Marx's son-in-law.

Tips

history
Marx's famous quip 'if one thing is certain, it is that I am not a Marxist', passed on by Engels, was aimed at Lafargue and his French comrades, who called themselves Marxists. A Marxist is 马克思主义者, literally 'Marx-ism-person'.

In Pop Culture

懒惰权 Lǎnduò Quán
The Right to Be Lazy (1880)
Lafargue's most famous pamphlet - a satirical Marxist critique of the cult of work, still widely read in Chinese left intellectual circles

Stroke Order

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