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

Theory & Philosophy

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What Is the Relationship Between Capital and Surplus Value?

Sally Kohn: We know that surplus value is only taken out of humans, and isn't taken out of machines ecause you can't make a machine work harder thanit was made to work. So we know then that only value, or sorry, only human labor, can produce this surplus value," she says. "So that means then that, i guess labor and surplus value have some kind of relationship to one another"

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