Paul Lafargue, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Paul Lafargue

French politician

Date of Birth: 15-Jan-1842

Place of Birth: Santiago de Cuba, Santiago de Cuba Province, Cuba

Date of Death: 26-Nov-1911

Profession: writer, politician, economist, journalist, literary critic, philosopher, essayist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Paul Lafargue (French: [lafa?g]; 15 January 1842 – 25 November 1911) was a French revolutionary Marxist socialist journalist, literary critic, political writer and activist; he was Karl Marx's son-in-law having married his second daughter, Laura.
His best known work is The Right To Be Lazy.
Born in Cuba to French and Creole parents, Lafargue spent most of his life in France, with periods in England and Spain.
At the age of 69, he and 66-year-old Laura died together by a suicide pact. Lafargue was the subject of a famous quotation by Karl Marx.
Soon before Marx died during 1883, he wrote a letter to Lafargue and the 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 value of reformist struggles.
This exchange is the source of Marx's remark, reported by Friedrich Engels: "ce qu'il y a de certain c'est que moi, je ne suis pas Marxiste" ("what is certain to me is that [, if they are Marxists, then] I am not [a] Marxist").