"The #worker always has the right to leave his #employer, but has he the means to do so? And if he does quit him, is it in order to lead a free existence, in which he will have no master but himself? No, he does it in order to sell himself to another employer. He is driven to it by the same hunger which forced him to sell himself to the first employer. Thus the worker’s liberty, so much exalted by the economists, jurists, and bourgeois republicans, is only a theoretical freedom, lacking any means for its possible realization, and consequently it is only a fictitious liberty, an utter falsehood. The truth is that the whole life of the worker is simply a continuous and dismaying succession of terms of #serfdom -voluntary from the juridical point of view but #compulsory in the economic sense - broken up by momentarily brief interludes of freedom accompanied by starvation; in other words, it is real #slavery."

- Mikhail #Bakunin

Artowrk: [Artist
Constantin #Meunier (1831–1905)
Title
Unloading of a sailboat.
Object type painting
Date between 1851 and 1905
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions height: 103 cm (40.5 in); width: 82 cm (32.2 in)
Collection
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Constantin_Meunier_-_Unloading_of_a_sailboat.jpg)