Carrol Cox wrote:
>Marxist position, and do not quote Marx as an authority. But
>here I do. It seems to me that to reject Marx here is to fail completely
>to understand capitalism. Exploitation is a technical relationship, not
>theft.
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It kind of depends on what you take as your starting point. If your
premise is that we hold the good in common, then exploitation is theft.
I don't know what it means "to reject Marx here." I don't know what a "technical relationship" is. To exploit is to use for private gain. A non-exploitataive relationship posits the possiblity of reciprocity or of a long-term common good.
I would like it to be possible to use words like "theft" with reference to our experience of wage labor rather than with reference to the Marxist cannon.
Joanna
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