Slacker

"Creating a 'slacker' philosophy before its time, Lefebvre sought a non-moralising conception of production that creates the external and internal nature of the 'total person'. Lefebvre's philosophy of needs and desires is built around the question of how people 'produce themselves'. A critique of needs is essential to seeing the interlocking construction of capitalism."

"Slacker had come into the language as a term of frequent use. Bundles of Hearst newspapers had been burned in Times Square because Hearst was slow in swinging to the Allied cause but in a few weeks he had swung, and American flags were printed all over his daily sheets. So-called pro-Germans were being tarred and feathered by mobs in the West. Frank Little of the I.W.W. executive board had been lynched by business men in Butte, Montana. And new and appalling tales of cruelty to conscientious objectors were coming out of the prisons where they were confined."