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social stratification or class structure.
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Of course the answer seems to be obvious probably to most of you.
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Yeah, in the United States there is one class, the middle class;
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we are all middle class. Right?
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That's the typical American answer to this.
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But for an analyst it's a bit dubious answer;
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if there are classes, how on earth there is only one?
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Anyway, we will talk about this a great deal.
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So let's move to the question of theory of exploitation.
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And I will have to start this with the labor theory of value,
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and to go back to Adam Smith
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and to see how Marx is proceeding.