Especially in the modern context in the year of our lord 2024. Is it relevant? What do I need to know about it ?

EDIT : Thanks everyone for this really informative thread.

  • Muad'Dibber@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Another way of looking at it, would be the house vs the field slaves of a US slave plantation.

    The field slaves are the producers of the surplus (via the agricultural commodities they create and are then sold on the market). The house slaves do not produce surplus value, they only produce use values for the masters house, and live off a part of the value created by the field slaves. They aren’t part of the ruling slaveocracy, but they live from the same source.