Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 12:46:09 -0500 (EST)
Subject: M-TH: Schwartz - "What's Wrong with Exploitation?" Online


        Justin Schwartz's paper, "What's Wrong with Exploitation?," has
been placed online in HTML at: 

http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/marxism/Exploit.htm

        It is also indexed at: 
                                
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/marxism/marxpapers.html

        Here is the abstract of the paper, which appears in final form in
Nous 29: pp. 158-188. The form that is online is a manuscript, and
therefore not the same as the article printed in Nous: 

                                  ABSTRACT
                
   It is widely thought that the Marxist objection to the exploitation of
   producers is that in expropriating the surplus, dominant groups take
   something to which producers are entitled because they produced it. I
   argue, first, that this is a misreading of Marx. His objection is not
   that exploitation is unjust, but that it denies the producers'
   freedoms. Second, whether or not exploitation is unjust, unfreedom is
   a logically independent and prior objection to exploitation; the
   objection from property entitlements presupposes force. Third, I
   distinguish three ways that exploitation involves different unfreedoms
   and argue that class societies are exploitative in the specified
   sense. Finally, I address the objection that Marx's critique of
   capitalism in particular depends on an indefensible labor theory of
   value.                                                                
   
        If there are any problems, let me know. I was a bit concerned that I
made the writing too small; it won't make any difference to those who read
through a text-based browser like Lynx but the text might look small
through Netscape or Internet Explorer. To fix the problem, make your font
size larger. 

        Also, I'll be putting more papers of Schwartz's online soon, so
that those who have engaged him in discussion can have a base of published
arguments to take issue with, or accept. 

Kevin Cabral
Columbus, Ohio                                                         




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