Marxism largely provides two damning critiques of capitalism: alienation and exploitation. Exploitation is loosely defined as the extraction of surplus value from the labourer’s creation by the capitalist. Since the labourer is solely responsible for the creation of this value, they are being exploited by the capitalist in not receiving the full value of their creation.
A common, although unconvincing, reply to this Marxist critique is that since the labourer is freely choosing to accept this job, knowing that they will not receive full value for their services, they are not being exploited. However, it would appear that in some […]
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