Does revolt depend on social wage?
From another point of view, one can say that the apparent permanence of the present day crisis of profitability will not fail to call into question the famous ‘social wage’ which, like all state expenditures, depends on the steady functioning of productive capital. In all capitalist countries, the necessity of tightening the social welfare belt is freely discussed with appropriate steps being taken as they are politically feasible. Once the possibility of drawing on the ‘social wage’ is reduced, we will see the collapse of the myth of absenteeism as a radical form of struggle, in the same way as today already the slogan of the ‘revolt against work’ is collapsing in the face of rising unemployment. As always there will then remain for the workers only an open struggle against the wage system or else submission to it and to the barbarism it engenders. This leads us back to the question of absenteeism and sabotage as forms of struggle. Where these have become in the last few years mass ph
