Exploitation
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"Immanuel Wallerstein characterised the world system as a set of mechanisms, which redistributes surplus value from the periphery to the core. In his terminology, the core is the developed, industrialized part of the world, and the periphery is the "underdeveloped", typically raw materials-exporting, poor part of the world; the market being the means by which the core exploits the periphery." --Sholem Stein "To talk of intrinsic right and intrinsic wrong is absolutely nonsensical; intrinsically, an injury, an oppression, an exploitation, an annihilation can be nothing wrong, inasmuch as life is essentially (that is, in its cardinal functions) something which functions by injuring, oppressing, exploiting, and annihilating, and is absolutely inconceivable without such a character." On the Genealogy of Morality, tr. Horace B. Samuel "To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be place[d] under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality." --Pierre-Joseph Proudhon |
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The term exploitation has two distinct meanings, one which is neutral and another which is pejorative.
The neutral usage is restricted to "the act of utilizing something for any purpose. In this case, exploit is a synonym for use: e.g. the author has the right to exploit his copyrights in the way he chooses."
The pejorative usage is defined as "the act of utilizing something in an unjust, cruel or selfish manner for one's own advantage.
Exploitation
from Latin explicō (“unfold, deploy”). From ex- + plicō (“I fold”), related to explicit, implicit.
See also
Forms of human exploitation
- Exploitation of natural resources
- Exploitation of labour
- Exploitation colonialism
- Slavery
- Sexual slavery and other forms
- Oppression
- Psychological manipulation
- Child labor
- Forced labour
- Human trafficking
- Debt bondage
- Forced prostitution
- Corporate abuse
- Cruelty to animals
- Indentured servant
- Sharecropping
- Sweatshop
- Wage slavery