2023-10-25 19:54:11
TRIBUNE – In terms of immigration, a step seems to have been reached. A majority of the population is now convinced that immigration is linked, on the one hand, to the terrorism which has raged in France for a long time, but on the other hand to the social insecurity generated by riots, attacks , thefts, rapes and delinquency with or without drug use, all criteria which undermine French society. In short, everything suggests that this violence which seems to emanate more from migrant environments (but not exclusively) is only the beginning and that there will be no return to a peaceful phase. The reason is simple, but requires lifting the silence which reigns, both on the right and on the left, on wage employment, that is to say on the foundation of the system of commodification of competitive labor, born in the 14th century. century, which, at the instigation of merchants, has shaped societies since those times.
A pattern has been established at the heart of our societies: exploited workers fight against exploitation and employer or financial organizations respond afterwards by importing cheaper foreign labor from the immigration or through the export of factories (which fueled the trend towards globalization of the labor market or robotization), and, today, the use of artificial intelligence, leading to the wage crisis throughout the world , without taking into account the cultures of migrant or exotic populations, who may hold a violent mythology that must be analyzed on a case-by-case basis.
The diagnosis of wage labor is therefore simple, but censored: it is based on the competitive commodification of work, quite the opposite of an association of workers which would be based on sharing, mutual aid and a new social bond. Therefore, we do not see how this system could oppose immigration which is its very essence. After Asia, the African continent, the mecca of animism, is waiting.
Salary employment is therefore an invention. It succeeds serfdom and slavery and is opposed to the corporation. Fernand Braudel, who was its historian, proclaimed its birth in 1393 in Auxerre, as far as France was concerned, combined with individualism and every man for himself. A statement later confirmed by Turgot and then by Marx who declared: “Capital and wages are linked to each other and will disappear together. It is therefore absurd to speak of capitalism without wages.” (Foundations of the critique of political economy).
From then on, this infernal cycle of capitalism begins and the birth of the absurd ideology which reigns on the entire left: the importation of cheaper labor in response to the demand against exploitation is found in the face of new applicants for jobs, those recruited individually and freely in competition, without taking into account their cultures, even if they were deadly. The cycle “wage labor-fight against exploitation-immigration-labor market-export of factories” was born. The violence of the fight against immigration was often exercised, notably in the 19th century, against the migrants themselves. The massacre of Italian workers at the end of August 1893 in Aigues-Mortes, in the south of France, remains an episode of sad memory.
The reduction of capitalism to mere exploitation in ignorance of the competitive commodification of labor remains at the root of the left’s blindness. His claim to the reduction of socialism to state capitalism follows the same blindness. Historically, this mystifying operation goes back to Lasalle and will be developed by Lenin then Mao and peddled by the social democrats and the communist parties.
The “absurd” left-wing thinking which still reigns today in an archaic way – Mélenchon style – or liberal, has also censored the perpetuation of wage competition and the increase in the role of the State to claim to embody the social bond.
It is certain that we are experiencing the end of the left with the migration crisis and the wage crisis.
Faced with this change in the labor market and the foreseeable increase in migratory layers, political leaders will not be able to remain silent forever or avoid the debate on the cohesion of the cultural nation and its socio-economic future.
We are approaching the final impasse of the wage system leading to the loss of social ties. It’s not too late, the possible is not impossible. “The kibbutz is dead, long live the urban kibbutz”, such was the title of an article that we published on the subject of a new formula born near Tel Aviv in the magazine The best of worlds.
Claude Berger is the author, among others, of Marx, the association, the anti-Lenin, towards the abolition of wage labor (Payot, 1974), Put an end to wage employment, Why anti-Semitism, Itinerary of a Jew of the Century (all three published in 2013 and 2014 by Editions de Paris).
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