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    It is not the case that 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.

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    • 1.Care labor's unpaid status subsidizes capitalist reproduction by freeing workers for wage labor; this indirect value transfer constitutes exploitation even without direct surplus extraction.
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    • 2.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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    • 3.The distinction between surplus value and use-value assumes household work exists outside capitalist logic, but capitalism depends on and structures care work's commodification-resistance.
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    • 1.Marx explicitly defined surplus value as value extracted in commodity exchange; household care produces immediate use-values, not commodities for sale.
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    • 2.The Marxist exploitation framework requires capital accumulation through market circulation; domestic labor operates outside this capitalist reproduction cycle.
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    • 3.Applying surplus value extraction to non-commodified work dilutes Marx's analytical precision and risks making 'exploitation' descriptively universal rather than structurally specific.
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