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    Capitalist economic relations are not truly free because ... — Carmelics
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    Capitalist economic relations are not truly free because workers are dominated by capitalists.

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    • 1.Workers are inappropriately subject to the will of capitalists in shaping the terms of their work.
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    • 2.Workers' consent to exploitative contracts is given under conditions of deep vulnerability and asymmetry of power.
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    Capitalist economic relations are often defended by saying that they are the result of free choices by consenting adults. Wage workers are not slaves or serfs—they have the legal right to refuse to work for capitalists. But socialists reply that the relationship between capitalists and workers actually involves domination. Workers are inappropriately subject to the will of capitalists in the shaping of the terms on which they work (both in the spheres of exchange and production, and within the b
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