-- Luke
----- Original Message ----- From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 3:54 PM Subject: [lbo-talk] Exploited
> >Oh, but Carrol is taking too seriously Marx's rejection of
> >"morality" in favor of "science." But what other reason is there to
> >object to exploitation, if not morality? I think it's pretty safe to
> >drop that 19th century remnant; the rest of the Marxian system could
> >survive nicely.
> >
> >Doug
>
> What if exploitation as such in the Marxist sense is less likely to
> cause the most exploited (e.g., highly paid workers who produce much
> exchange values at high rates of productivity who are given stock
> options by profitable companies) to raise moral objection to their
> own exploitation than the least exploited (e.g., workers who toil for
> long hours for pittances at low rates of productivity in sweatshops
> equipped with old machinery) or the unexploited (e.g., the
> unemployed)? That's where theory comes in.
>
> Yoshie
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