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What Do Marxists Actually Think?

The Political Orphanage

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The Rate of Exploitation

I mentioned that I read the communist manifesto. There's like three sentences about abolishing family. So he's talking about the family as an economic unit, not in terms of as a social unit. Right. The rate of exploitation is like the inverse or the other side of the labor theory of value. And again, once those widgets get sold, the boss takes his cut and there's a portion of that cut that goes into my wage. According to Marxism for the system to work, I have to get less than what I am actually contributing.

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