AN EARLIER Full Marx feature (the first in the series) explained that the term “exploitation” — colloquially used to mean taking unfair advantage of someone, emotionally or physically — is used by Marxists in a very specific, technical sense, relating to the way in which goods and services are produced and traded under capitalism and who benefits.  

As capitalism lurches from crisis to crisis, more and more workers are ‘superexploited’ – they receive less than the minimum deemed ‘socially necessary’ to support themselves and produce the next generation of workers, writes the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School

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