Exploitative Techniques

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According to Ruyle,[1] exploitative techniques are the "precise instrumentalities through which economic surplus is pumped out of the direct producers" It includes "slavery, plunder, tribute, rent, taxation, usury, ... various forms of unequal exchange" and, we should add, the Stock Market. The term is syncretic with the LP term Mechanisms of Accumulation.

Syncretic Terms

Mechanisms of Accumulation > Exploitative Techniques

Notes

Exploitatives techniques constitute one of three aspects of the Mode of Exploitation. Other aspects include the Mechanisms of Force and Ideological Institutions. [2]

Ideological Institutions.

Footnotes

  1. Ruyle, Eugene E. “Mode of Production and Mode of Exploitation: The Mechanical and the Dialectical.” Dialectical Anthropology 1, no. 1 (1975): 7–23. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00244565. p. 12
  2. Ruyle, Eugene E. “Mode of Production and Mode of Exploitation: The Mechanical and the Dialectical.” Dialectical Anthropology 1, no. 1 (1975): 7–23. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00244565. p. 11