reparations & exploitation

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Mar 9 08:20:13 PST 2001


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>Exploitation takes the form of the expropriation of surplus from one
>class by another. Therefore slaves were by definition exploited.
>Who were the exploiters, however? The ruling class or all white
>men? The ruling class.

If white men enjoy an income advantage (and that's the flip side of the 10-15% penalty I was just talking about for nonwhite nonmen), then they do share in part in the fruits of exploitation.

Doug



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