this does not mean to say that the rate of profit may not fall temporarily for other reasons. but proceeding from the nature of the capitalist mode of production, it is thereby proved a logical necessity that in its development the general average rate of surplus-value [2/5]
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must express itself in a falling general rate of profit. since the mass of the employed living labour is continually on the decline as compared to the mass of materialised labour set in motion by it, i.e., to the productively consumed means of [3/5]
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production, it follows that the portion of living labour, unpaid and congealed in surplus-value, must also be continually on the decrease compared to the amount of value represented by the invested total capital. [4/5]
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since the ratio of the mass of surplus-value to the value of the invested total capital forms the rate of profit, this rate must constantly fall." - karl marx [5/5]
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