EXPLOITATION AND JUSTICE - SHOULD WE BE INTERESTED IN A THEORY OF EXPLOITATION

Surplus transfer from one class to another is fundamental to Marx's th eory of exploitation which involves denial of rights over one's produc t and external resources. Bur the types of injustices mired by new soc ial movements are exactly the ones where this surplus transfer to capi talists is missing. This demands a rectification of the exploitation-c entred critique of capitalism and an observance of a difference betwee n exploitation and oppression. Any conception of alternative good soci ety then requires not only elimination of exploitative conditions of w age labour bur also of structures of domination beyond the sphere of p roduction.