Onal, Mehmet2024-08-042024-08-0420191303-8303https://hdl.handle.net/11616/102590In this study, first of all, the definition of idleness, its history, similarities or differences with parasitism and laziness will be examined. Then, the differences of meanings attributed by the idle groups or individuals to the word idleness during the course of history will be discussed. The question whether or not idleness can be established as a way of life today will be the basis of this study. On this basis, both basic concepts such as idleness theory, social idleness, idleness class and self-sufficiency virtue, and whether or not idleness can constitute an alternative to capitalist imperialism will be the sub-debates respectively. In fact, one of the most devastating consequences of the capitalist production-consumption frenzy is the environmental disasters caused by the injustice of income and imbalance of ecology as a result of pollution. The main thesis of the article is that being neither an ideology nor anarchism, but an antithesis movement, the idle lifestyle is not laziness, but a philosophy of life and doctrine of happiness, which can serve deep ecology and may even overthrow the capitalist and imperialist system.trinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessIdlenesslazinessparasitichappiness doctrinelifestylecapitalismideologArticle9410731096WOS:000606742200012N/A