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Self-ownership: defending Marx against Cohen.(Karl Marx and G.A. Cohen)

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From: Social Theory and Practice
Date: 20020101
Author:Levy, Neil

One topic more than any other has dominated recent discussion among Analytic Marxists: exploitation. That exploitation should have such attention lavished upon it seems appropriate enough: it is at the heart of the Marxian claim that capitalism is unjust. The other ills of capitalism may be differentially distributed, but only exploitation is essentially a relation between two classes--exploited and exploiting--and therefore, by definition, a kind of unfairness.

Unfortunately, the classical analyses of exploitation have proved difficult to defend. The economic theory upon ...

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