Angelus Novus, Please calm yourself your down and stop the accusations. Does Marx recognize the importance of child labor? Yes. Should we consider children to have consented to labor contracts? No. Therefore, Marx does not say that the capitalist mode of production necessarily depends on formally free wage labor (and there is recent research showing that child labor played a pivotal role in the Industrial Revolution). Marx does show that it tends to universalize it and that exploitation is possible even when labor is formally free.
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