[lbo-talk] Delong puts the smackdown on ol' Whiskers

[Todd Archer]

Isn't Brad's definition of exploitation very different, more moralistic than 
systemically analytic, from Marx'?  So he's comparing apples to onyx, right?

He says:

"The proprietor families starve themselves for a decade, and yet Marx views 
them as exploiters? The heavy investments of the proprietor class and their 
resulting demand for labor raises the real wage by 50%, and yet the working 
class is oppressed? Something is very wrong here."

LTV aside, it's as though he can't reconcile an almost Dickensian or 
sentimental view of exploitation ie starving children, workers in rags, old 
women about to drop dead from malnutrition before they finish work with one 
that looks simply at class position under capitalism.

Todd