From The Revolutions of Capitalism

Majority/Minorities

The conceptual pair majority/minorities takes account of a subjection that the Marxist concept of exploitation does not allow one to grasp. Now, like the concept of exploitation, the conceptual pair majority/minorities defines two heterogeneous movements by means of one and the same mechanism [dispositif]: the constitution of minorities as a majority and the constitution of minorities as forms of resistance, as creation of one and the same multiplicity.1 But while exploitation is a dialectical mechanism, the majoritarian model is differential: the conceptual pair exploiter/exploited is symmetrical, whereas the conceptual pair majority/minorities is asymmetrical. In this sense, the differences between these two mechanisms are considerable.