A General Theory of Exploitation and Class is a 1982 book about the exploitation of labour and social class written by the economist and political scientist...

(1982). A General Theory of Exploitation and Class. Harvard University Press. p. iv. ISBN 978-0674344402. Vrousalis, Nicholas (27 May 2020). "Review of Ernesto...

as the most influential theory of exploitation. Marx described exploitation as the theft of economic power in all class-based societies, including capitalism...

writing A General Theory of Exploitation and Class (1982), Roemer met the philosopher G. A. Cohen and the political theorist Jon Elster: they and others...

his A General Theory of Exploitation and Class (1982), Roemer employed rational choice and game theory to demonstrate how exploitation and class relations...

central to Marxist theory, which holds that capitalists' expropriation of the surplus value produced by the working class is exploitative. Modern mainstream...

Marxian class theory asserts that an individual's position within a class hierarchy is determined by their role in the production process, and argues that...

The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (1899), by Thorstein Veblen, is a treatise of economics and sociology, and a critique...

An exploitation film is a film that seeks commercial success by capitalizing on current trends, niche genres, or sensational content. Exploitation films...

been exploiting and exploited classes. The underconsumption of the masses is a necessary condition of all forms of society based on exploitation, consequently...

understandings of imperialism, dependency, super-exploitation and unequal exchange. Leon Trotsky began expressing his theory of uneven and combined development...

contradictions of the theory, because Marx drew ideas from LTV and related them to the concepts of labour exploitation and surplus value; the theory itself was...

working class in the First World is majority-exploited (sometimes arguing that it experiences no exploitation at all) and therefore it is not a part of the...

proletariat and other class actors within capitalist societies, concealing the exploitation and inequality intrinsic to the social relations between classes. As...

army of labour. Ricardo developed a theory of distribution within capitalism—that is, a theory of how the output of society is distributed to classes within...

Nazi exploitation (also Nazisploitation) is a subgenre of exploitation film and sexploitation film that involves Nazis committing sex crimes, often as...

consciousness, class struggle, exploitation, historical materialism, ideology, revolution; and the forces, means, modes, and relations of production. Marx's...

member of such a class is a proletarian or a proletaire. Marxist philosophy regards the proletariat under conditions of capitalism as an exploited class⁠ forced...

fetishism Compensation of employees Cost of capital Labor theory of value Law of value Primitive accumulation of capital Rate of exploitation Return on capital...

publicly owned. Marx's theory of class defines classes in their relation to their ownership and control of the means of production. In a capitalist society...

Marx and the Marxists, who held an exploitation theory of interest and had, therefore, to face the question of how exploiters secured control of an initial...

there is a specific political or moral reason why the state should intervene. However, Marx did not provide a general theory of the state and the labour...

such as Ernest Mandel and Roman Rosdolsky, argued that in truth Marx had no theory of an absolute immiseration of the working class; at most, one could...

enriching the capitalist class. This theory posits that the nature of capitalist production, characterized by the increasing exploitation of labor, will ultimately...

Conflict theories are perspectives in political philosophy and sociology which argue that individuals and groups (social classes) within society interact...

tendency of the rate of profit to fall (TRPF) is a theory in the crisis theory of political economy, according to which the rate of profit—the ratio of the...

World-systems theory (also known as world-systems analysis or the world-systems perspective) is a multidisciplinary approach to world history and social change...

Studies, Vol.22, No. 2, 1995, pp. 327-355. John Roemer, A General Theory of Exploitation and Class. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982, chapter 1....

) are a class of business owners, merchants and wealthy people, in general, which emerged in the Late Middle Ages, originally as a "middle class" between...

conflict theory is a Marxist-based social theory which argues that individuals and groups (social classes) within society interact on the basis of conflict...