Robinson does not understand that for Marx it is not individual workers who are exploited but the proletariat class a a whole. And that class is all the more exploited because capital accumulation keeps the working class vulnerable due to the reserve army of labor that it reproduces. Individual workers see through struggle that they are exploited and dominated as a class because some of their brothers and sisters are kept in reserve. Marx's revolutionary class does not fragment itself into lucky employed workers and unlucky unemployed workers but see themselves as part of one class who in their Sartrean seriality reproduce their own domination. The actively exploited produce the surplus value that will be invested ever more capital-intensively to keep the workers vulnerable while those already in the reserve army of labor force those working to produce the surplus value that will be capitalized in a way to reproduce the existential vulnerability of the workers. This is the absolute general law of accumulation. One part of the class is not lucky and the other unlucky; they are both part of one dominated class whose consciousness of their shared vulnerability is what class struggle itself produces.
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