Digital Communication 3205F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Shareware, Yochai Benkler, Erik Olin Wright
11 Jan 2018
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Exploitation the marxian definition: erik olin wright (1997) has argued that exploitation in its marxian sense is based on three principles. First, exploitation occurs when the material welfare of one class is causally dependent upon the material deprivation of another. The capitalist class in modern societies could not exist without the deprivations of the working classes. Second, that causal dependence depends in turn on the exclusion of workers from key productive resources, especially property. Third, the mechanism through which both these features (causal dependence and exclusion) operate is appropriation of the labour of the exploited. The first two alone would just represent oppression; for exploitation (in the marxian sense) to take place, the third condition must be present. Is unpaid labour always a problem: in the broadest sense, labour is simply exertion of the body or mind, and it is usually used to describe activities that have some sort of compulsion attached to them .
