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Classical liberalism has only theoretically touched on the question of economic exploitation. On the contrary, libertarianism (right and left) tries to account for this phenomenon from the central concept of negative freedom. Such a theoretical option tends to highlight the asymmetry between free market transactions and the coercion exercised by social groups or by the State, which represents the only possible definition of the concept of exploitation. At the normative level, the libertarian principles of acquisitive justice constitute both the justification for the inequality of property, market exchange and the principle of a critique of exploitation. The article questions the possibility of constructing a concept of exploitation consisting of the concepts of negative freedom and acquisitive justice.