>I don't know whether this is what is bugging Yoshie, but some people
>might want to say that classes are exploited, races are oppressed.
>Thts eems to be mechanical to me. Black slaves in America where both
>oppressed and, in the technical sense, exploited, wrongfully forced
>to produce surplus (value) that was appropriated by others.
If black and women workers are paid less than would be predicted by their education, occupation, and experience - and the consensus of the literature is that there's a 10-15% penalty after all things are rendered statistically equal - then there's quite a bit of exploitation involved.
Doug