A Comment on Jorda’s Paper “Two Kinds of Sloth at Industrial Age: The Surveys of the Philantropes of the 19th Century and the Lafargue's Refutation”

Jorda’s paper relates the role of labour to social cohesion. Being an offense to God under the Middle Ages, laziness became a theft with the development of capitalism. Conversely, Lafargue advocates the virtues of laziness. While the author just scratches the surface of Marx’s contribution, his specter looms over the text. A further elaboration of that reference would have given some more credit to the conclusion that the right to be lazy amounts to a break with the logic of domination.