Paul Lafargue was a French revolutionary Marxist socialist journalist, literary critic, political writer and activist. His best known work is The Right To Be Lazy.
"The domestication of woman presupposes that she fulfills in the household certain numerous functions which absorb all her energy; now, the most important and the most exacting of these domestic labors, – the spinning of wool and linen, the cutting and making up of clothing, laundry work, baking, etc., – are carried on by capitalistic industry. It furthermore presupposes that man by his contribution to the family capital and his earnings provides for the material needs of the family now; among the comfortable bourgeoisie, marriage is as much an association of capitals as a union of persons."
