Capitalism and Alienation, by Yanis Iqbal

What is Wage Slavery?

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by Yanis Iqbal
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Aligarh, India
August 3, 2021

Capitalism is deeply unjust. It is a system under which labour power has itself become a commodity and is bought and sold on the market like any other object of exchange. A condition of neo-slavery like this has been historically presupposed by the concentration of ownership of means of production in the hands of a minority class and the consequent emergence of a propertyless class for whom the sale of their power has been their only source of livelihood.

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