
From the archives: Beyond Economism with Nancy Fraser
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Expropriation vs Exploitation
Behind manchester stands mississippi sothat's a beautiful phrase. It's what it means is that you don't have the ability to profitably exploita factory labor in the great textile mills of manchester without ther material of cotton produced by slaves in Mississippi. That cheapens the crucial input, the raw material for the textile production. Also helps to have slave produced sugarand tobacco and rum and other commodities that allow you to pay lower wages because you have cheap consumer goods, so to speak. A so the point is, exploit ation and expropriation have always been intertwined in the history of capitalism.
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