It then offers case examples of how different segments of the population emerge as exploited groups in the United States, due to changes in social policies. Using practical examples, this article develops a theoretical framework for understanding social exploitation. Social exploitation is a second mechanism, securing labor from population segments that can be coerced or convinced to perform necessary work for free or at below-market compensation. Societies use various resource-allocation mechanisms, including price, to cope with gaps between wants and resources. To make matters somewhat worse, research suggests that need- and want-fulfillment tends to further stimulate the cycle of want-seeking rather than satiating desire. Thus societies are always in deficit demand always exceeds supply and “balancing the budget” is a constant social problem. Social Exploitation Social Surplus Elderly PolicyĪBSTRACT: In all societies needs and wants regularly exceed resources.

New York, NY: Cosimo.īalancing the Budget through Social Exploitation: Why Hard Times Are Even Harder for Some Volume 1, Part 1: The process of capitalist production. Capital: A critique of political economy. Formal and real subsumption of labor to capital, for example, is included therein, but Marx had deleted all references to those concepts by the time of his French edition (see p. I use this occasion to note my belief that the Appendix to the Fowkes’ edition, “Results of the Immediate Process of Production” should have been published separately from Volume I, since Marx did not include it and including can be misinterpreted.

I prefer this English edition over the Penguin translation by Ben Fowkes as it was translated and edited by people who knew Marx personally and remains within the historical record that plays an important role in my Chapters 3 though 5. The cited version was published by Lawrence and Wishart, as indicated.

I use the 1867 date of the first edition in citations, although I am utilizing the English edition as later amended to include changes by Engels for his 4th German edition.

In his lifetime, Marx’s work had two German editions and one French edition, and thereafter edited by Engels, there were two more German editions and one English edition.

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