ASNSWR127 said:
and yes actually those sort of conditions do still exist... its called Africa and South America.
The agrarian poor do not constitute a majority of "exploited industrial workers", nor do the rural-urban migrants who contribute largely as informal workers in the urban areas of said countries.
You wouldn't even be able to calculate Marx's exploitation ratio for most of these people because half the equation doesn't exist for them.
Plus it was not all about high intensity jobs but also about equality for all...
In Das Kapital, equality for all is not an aim in itself, but rather the result of the natural social progression. The very nature of capital itself has changed, in the developed world human capital itself is now the overriding form of capital through education, skill etc. rather than industrial plant. Most of Marx's "exploited" are now robots and automated assembly lines.
you have to take all of this into consideration.
And you should actually read some fundamentals of Marxism before you support it, most of it is in Marx's Das Kapital.
The largest problem with Marx's work is actually that he expands Smith and Ricardo to justify his own conclusions, aka. uses the labour theory of value, which has long since been discarded due to its internal inconsistencies in favour of marginalism and scarcity as the determinant of economic value.
