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Date: Sun, 13 Nov 1994 22:42:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell-AT-wfu.edu>
Subject: Re: Exploitation and all that...


Lulu's line seems to be that exploitation ain't exploitation
unless it can be measured (and, further, that it can be
measured only when it takes the form of the production of
commodities).  But what is the justification for that view?
We may not be able to quantify the degree of exploitation of,
say, a peasant in a feudal society, but we can certainly
say that the peasant class as a whole is exploited.   Where
else does the food consumed by the landlords, priests, etc
come from?  

=========================Allin Cottrell 
Department of Economics 
Wake Forest University
cottrell-AT-wfu.edu
(910) 759-5762
=========================



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