explaining marx's theories on capitalism and alienation, a threadpic.twitter.com/A1kq1Ppqc8
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surplus-value is the value created by the labour of the worker in excess of the value of his labour-power and is appropriated by the capitalist without compensation. the production of surplus-value is the basic economic law of capitalism. you'll sometimes see this called "profit"
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alienation comes in the product of work that it produces. commodities become, through one's lack of control/ownership, something alien
variable capital is that part of capital which is spent on the purchase of labour-power; this part of capital grows as a result of the creation by the workers of surplus-value which is appropriated by the capitalists
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the rate of surplus-value is the proportion of surplus-value to variable capital. it expresses the degree of exploitation of the worker by the capitalist. capitalists raise the rate of surplus value by 2 methods - the production of absolute + relative surplus value
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absolute surplus value is surplus value created by means of lengthening the working day or raising the intensity of labour. relative surplus value is surplus value created by means of shortening necessary labour-time and correspondingly increasing surplus labour time
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and lastly, the class interests of the bourgeoisie and the proletariat are an irreconcilable fact of capitalism. the fundamental contradiction of capitalism is the contradiction between the social character of production and the private. as capitalism develops, this sharpens
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of course, there are much more nuances to this than what can be said in 280 characters. for further reading though, i advise reading this [1] surprisingly accessible work of political economy from the USSR. trust me, it's a damned good source [1]: https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/authors/pe/index.htm …
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