In this article, the author’s main concern centers on Cohen’s subtle arguments against exploitation. However, by the end he shows that the objections of Roemer and many of the other participants in the exploitation wars are also fundamentally misplaced. He claims to show that it is not Marx but these Marxists who accept irredeemably bourgeois premises–premises that leave them unable to appreciate the force the accusation of exploitation ought to have in Marxian thought.
