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Karl Marx's "Capital" Vol. 1 (Part 2/4)

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Capitalism and the Production of Absolute Surplus Value

The capitalist wants to make objects that will have use value for some one, and that can therefore be sold. So if i needed a shovel, i'd go to some one, some one else down the road who makes shovels, and they are going to charge me what they've kand of valued their own labor at in terms of that shovel. And now we're into part three, the production of absolute surplus value, and chapter seven, the labor process and the valorization process. Nothing in the world is raw material until humans operate on it with labor, with their own labor. Labor demands tools as use values.

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