Karl Marx’s exploitation theory is one of the major elements analyzed in Marxian economics and some social theorists consider it to be a cornerstone in Marxist thought. Marx credited the Scottish Enlightenment writers … See more

Developing nations, commonly called Third World countries, are the focus of much debate over the issue of exploitation, particularly in the … See more

• The Communist Manifesto, Marxists Internet Archive
• Wage Labour and Capital, Marxists Internet Archive
• Only Socialism Can Put an End to Exploitation, Jacobin See more

Liberal theory
Many assume that liberalism intrinsically lacks any adequate theory of exploitation because its phenomenon commits itself only to the primacy of personal rights and liberties and to individual choice as the basic explanatory … See more

Wage labour as institutionalized under today's market economic systems has been criticized, especially by both mainstream socialists and anarcho-syndicalists, utilising the pejorative term wage slavery. They regard the trade of labour as a … See more