This article proposes a neo-Marxist reflection on volunteer work practices (VWP) in order to move away from a pure and idealized conception of volunteering as a gift of self to inscribe it as a set of value-producing work practices inserted in neoliberal capitalism. Using three examples of contemporary volunteering, the article demonstrates the anchoring of the VWP in a war of values in which the latter are co-opted by neoliberal capitalism, by the very fact of their idealization and naturalization as free self-giving. This article is part of a more general reflection on the value of work in today’s capitalism; it proposes an analytical and political gesture.