According to Wright, capitalism feeds off exploitation, which entails maintaining this concept at the heart of the analysis. Exploitation is a social relation distinct from domination, which cannot be subsumed under the latter. [...] ‘non-exploitative’ oppression: it can extend to the physical elimination of the oppressed population. Exploitation is a very different phenomenon. The exploiter needs the exploited, since the former’s own material welfare cannot do without the latter’s labour. For this reason, although class massacres can occur, capitalists are to a certain extent compelled to restrain their violence towards workers. That is why the sentence ‘the only good worker is a dead worker’ makes no sense.