Jul 1, 2022 • 53M

Is Exploitation Morally Wrong? A Critique of GA Cohen

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Liv Agar
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1.     Introduction

“Exploitation is unjust! The boss steals the worker’s surplus value! Labour is entitled to what it creates!” You’ve likely heard slogans like this uttered by Marxists at one time or another. They can be found, for instance, in a new Jacobin article by Ben Burgis titled “Karl Marx Was Right: Workers Are Systematically Exploited Under C…

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