"the real degree of the exploitation (you must allow me this French word) of labour."

  • Marx, Value, Price, and Profit.

What's wrong with that, lmao, was Engels going to censor that?

  • PissWarlock [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    I agree with you, but I’m a bit confused about what you mean?

    Are you talking about language/context barriers when it comes to the terms we use to discuss theoretical concepts?

    Vaguely related: to the best of my knowledge there is no word on English for exploitation that is not a loan word.

    • TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      No, there isn't a better English word which is why Marx used it. I wish we had one that was a little more neutral for the general audience, but that's what we got.

      Yeah, I meant in educating or "debating" people in real life. Telling people how they, as workers, are exploited by bosses is usually a tough sell unless they're in the precariat or in the immigrant agricultural sector (cause then they can really feel it on a fundamental level). It can be hard to explain the theory because you have to, like, un-teach people some of their capitalist propoganda education especially on the semantics of words used by Marx.

      • Teapot [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        It seems like Marx used the French word because it has a harsher tone than the equivalent German word

      • PissWarlock [comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        I know what you mean now. The programming is legitimately scary in effect.

        I brought up the Amazon unionization drive at a job once and a dude who literally got stiffed for an entire season of work on a shrimp boat started spouting anti union stuff.