Source: The Peaceful Revolutionist
by David S D’Amato
“Respect theories of exploitation claim that it is fundamentally about the failure to ‘treat exploitees with equal concern and respect.’ [Nicholas] Vrousalis says that the paradigm here, in addition to the feudal lord and the monopolist, is the rentier class and Piketty’s ‘‘patrimonial capitalist’ who gains from background unfairness.’ Such respect-based theories, as restated by Vrousalis, involve the Kantian worry about treating other people as mere means to your own ends, typically through the use of coercive force or some other kind of fundamental relational unfairness. It’s important to point out that while, for Vrousalis, respect theories don’t neatly reduce exploitation to force or coercion, this does not mean that they necessarily exclude these factors.” (09/23/25)
https://dsdamato.substack.com/p/what-is-the-relationship-between