Capitalist exploitation is distinct because it is implicit

Evidence

Exploitation occurs when producers are deprived of what they produce. In other words, employees do not have control over the product of their labor and must surrender it to their employers. Again, the feudal lord lived by seizing a portion of the grain grown by the serf. In slave societies, slave owners appropriated the cotton harvested by the enslaved. As we have seen, this appropriation occurred openly, through political means. Capitalist exploitation, however, is implicit, and we have come to overlook its extraordinary power over us. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 99

Categorization

• XREF: The transparency-vs-implicitness contrast echoes how the reader’s past work on communication (Innis’s bias of communication) distinguishes overt from invisible social mechanisms. — connects to: The bourgeoisie reframes exploitation as public service to justify it — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 736; Market ideology conceals exploitation by making exchange stand in for production; Capitalist-worker exchange is formally equal but substantively unequal — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1365 (+5 more)
• DEFINE: Exploitation defined as deprivation of the product of one’s labor, with open feudal/slave appropriation contrasting with hidden capitalist appropriation.

Broader Connections

• Market ideology conceals exploitation by making exchange stand in for production #expands (0.85)
• State intervention during wartime made capitalist exploitation overtly political and vulnerable to resistance #complicates (0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 173
• State intervention made capitalist exploitation political and thereby threatened capitalism itself #complicates (0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 173
• Capitalist-worker exchange is formally equal but substantively unequal #corroborates (0.80) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1365
• Theorizing away the concept of totality serves capitalism by hiding it from political challenge #expands (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 713
• Domination in advanced capitalism is masked as neutral administration and objectivity #responds-to (0.72) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 186
• Mainstream political economy already condemned capitalist exploitation before Marx #corroborates (0.72)