Does historical materialism contradict exploitation?

[Jacob Cliff]

If Marx rejected metaphysics and was a materialist, then wouldn't that negate exploitation? It would mean there is no good or bad inherently according to materialism, and exploitation implies something bad

[ñángara]

Exploitation is not a subjective phenomenon. It's the engine of the capitalist profit.

[G4b3n]

Exploitation is not inherently moralistic. It is explained in the Marxist sense of the word through the labor theory of value and the theory of surplus value.