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Nicholas Vrousalis, Exploitation as Domination: What Makes Capitalism Unjust, Oxford University Press, 2023, 198pp., $97.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780192867698.
Reviewed by Kory P. Schaff, California State University, Los Angeles
In 1978, G.A. Cohen published his book Karl Marx’s Theory of History: A Defence, inspiring a generation of Anglo-American philosophers and social scientists to engage with Marx and Marxism before the collapse of the Soviet Union (Cohen 1978). Coined “analytical Marxism” by Jon Elster, this movement consisted of two features: applying the methodologies of “analytic” philosophy and social science to Marx’s normative commitments to and interest in the problems of capitalism, and rejecting Marxist orthodoxy about alienation, dialectical materialism, and communism (Roemer 1986). The problem that served as its starting point was Marx’s concept of exploitation, including its definition, origins, explanatory and normative force, and its role in the critique of capitalism.
In this context, Nicholas Vrousalis’s new book provides a fresh take on this problem….
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