reparations & exploitation

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>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

No.  White male workers' income advantages only mean that they are on 
the average 10-15% less exploited by the ruling class than their 
black and/or female co-workers are.

Yoshie