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A General Theory of Exploitation and Class

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  • Introduction
    • 1. A crisis in Marxism
    • 2. A general theory of exploitation
    • 3. A simple model of Marxian exploitation
    • 4. A brief outline
    • 5. A defense of method
  • Part I: Exploitation and Class in Subsistence Economies
    • 1. Exploitation and Class in Subsistence Economies
    • 2. The Labor Market and the Emergence of Class
    • 3. The Functional Equivalence of Labor and Credit Markets
  • Part II: Exploitation and Class in an Accumulating Economy
    • 4. The Class Exploitation Correspondence Principle
    • 5. The Dependence of Labor Value on the Market
    • 6. Marxian Exploitation and Heterogeneous Labor
  • Part III: Exploitation, Socialism, and Historical Materialism
    • 7. A General Definition and Taxonomy of Exploitation
    • 8. Exploitation in Existing Socialism
    • 9. Links with Historical Materialism
  • References
  • Index

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