Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of sources
- Introduction
- Part I Exploitation
- Introduction to Part I
- 1 Exploitation, alternatives and socialism
- 2 Property relations vs. surplus value in Marxian exploitation
- 3 Should Marxists be interested in exploitation?
- 4 What is exploitation? Reply to Jeffrey Reiman
- 5 Second thoughts on property relations and exploitation
- Part II Equality of resources
- Part III Bargaining theory and justice
- Part IV Public ownership and socialism
- References
- Index
3 - Should Marxists be interested in exploitation?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of sources
- Introduction
- Part I Exploitation
- Introduction to Part I
- 1 Exploitation, alternatives and socialism
- 2 Property relations vs. surplus value in Marxian exploitation
- 3 Should Marxists be interested in exploitation?
- 4 What is exploitation? Reply to Jeffrey Reiman
- 5 Second thoughts on property relations and exploitation
- Part II Equality of resources
- Part III Bargaining theory and justice
- Part IV Public ownership and socialism
- References
- Index
Summary
To work at the bidding and for the profit of another… is not… a satisfactory state to human beings of educated intelligence, who have ceased to think themselves naturally inferior to those whom they serve.
J. S. Mill, Principles of Political EconomyThe capitalist mode of production… rests on the fact that the material conditions of production are in the hands of non-workers in the form of property in capital and land, while the masses are only owners of the personal conditions of production, of labour power. If the elements of production are so distributed, then the present-day distribution of the means of consumption results automatically.
Karl Marx, Selected WorksMotivations for exploitation theory
Marxian exploitation is defined as the unequal exchange of labor for goods: the exchange is unequal when the amount of labor embodied in the goods which the worker can purchase with his income (which usually consists only of wage income) is less than the amount of labor he expended to earn that income. Exploiters are agents who can command with their income more labor embodied in goods than the labor they performed; for exploited agents, the reverse is true.
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- Egalitarian PerspectivesEssays in Philosophical Economics, pp. 65 - 96Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994
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