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    Historicizing care as merely 'use-value production' obscu... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Marx and Engels located exploitation in surplus value extraction within commodity production; care labor within the household produces use-values, not surplus value, making the Marxist exploitation framework categorically inapplicable.

    Historicizing care as merely 'use-value production' obscures how patriarchal capitalism systematized women's unwaged labor as a distinct mode of domination requiring its own analysis.

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    Historicizing(as used in critical theory)
    Examining something by looking at how it developed over time and was shaped by historical events, rather than treating it as a permanent or natural fact.
    Mode of domination(as used in critical social theory)
    A particular system or method by which one group of people controls, exploits, or has power over another group.
    Patriarchal capitalism(as used in feminist theory)
    An economic system (capitalism) built on both making profit and maintaining male dominance (patriarchy), where these two systems reinforce each other.
    Unwaged labor(contrasted with waged labor in the statement)
    Work that you do without receiving direct payment, like cooking, cleaning, or childcare done in your own home.
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