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Exploitation, Vulnerability, and Social Domination

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ID6325955
AuthorsNicholas Vrousalis (0000-0002-9819-3423, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume41
Issue2
Pages131-157
Publication date2013-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhilosophy & Public Affairs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0048-3915 • E-ISSN: 1088-4963
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/papa.12013
OpenAlexW2523788085
LanguageEN
Citations received83
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And because man is a human being he doesn't care for a boot in the face.He wants no slaves below him and no masters above him.Bertolt Brecht "Song of the United Front" This article attempts to revive a research program by criticizing it.Its object of criticism is the powerful research agenda of analytical Marxism.I shall attempt this revival by criticizing the views of two of the most influential members of that research program, G. A. Cohen and John Roemer.I will argue that they are mistaken in their identification of exploitation with exchange against the background of injustice in the distribution of assets.Exploitation should be conceived, instead, as a form of domination, that is, domination for self-enrichment.The latter conception captures intuitions surplus to the traditional analytical Marxist view, provides a richer and more plausible understanding of socialist goals, is more amenable to integration into a rigorous Marxist social science, and brings Marxism closer to radical democracy.If I am right, then the idea of exploitation will have received a new lease on life, and the Marxist armory will have been enriched by renewed focus on vulnerability and domination.The article is structured as follows.Section I offers a general definition of exploitation as the self-enriching instrumentalization of Thanks to

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