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

Todd Archer todda39 at hotmail.com
Tue Apr 5 13:52:26 PDT 2005


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



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