laws of capitalism

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Jun 20 08:15:40 PDT 1999


Rob Schaap wrote:


>Well, I know Castells has said exploitation is passe. Exclusion is the
>phobic phenomenon du juour for him. Does this not imply that the ensnaring
>of the unexploited into capital relations might now count as progressive?

Why's this an either/or thing? What's wrong with Joan Robinson's formulation, which I quote too often, that under capitalism the only thing worse than being exploited is not being exploited.

Doug



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