reparations & exploitation

[Brad Mayer]

Waiddaminit.  An income advantage (or disadvantage) != (does not equal)
fruits of exploitation.  It may be that they are more (or less) exploited.
Superexploited is the term, I believe.  It's not news that racism, sexism,
imperialism can generate superprofits.  Superprofits can only be "kicked
back" as privileges via politics and the state.


> 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
>