
The constitution of wage labor hides some major historical enigmas. With the generalization of wage labor, capitalism is presented, as compared to the systems that preceded it, as a bearer of freedom. However, it enshrines a dependency on the economic level, no matter how much it operates between legally "free" people. The tension between capitalism and democracy manifests itself from primitive accumulation and reappears endlessly. Historically, free wage labor is not, otherwise, but the visible tip of the iceberg of dependent labor. The slavery of the plantations, the second servitude, the work under contract of the migrants, the forced colonial work or in concentration camps, are recurring and lasting anomalies. Did not the labor movement claim in its statutes the abolition of the slavery of wage labor? How can it be explained that the development of capitalism operates at the same ...read more