It is also called the law of surplus value. The law of surplus value is the production and capital multiplication in capitalist society. It is not a specific aspect or some individual process that determines the development of capitalist production, but all the main aspects and processes of the development of capitalist production. Therefore, it is what determines the essence of capitalist production. A social form can only have one basic economic law, and the law of surplus value plays a leading role in the economic law system of capitalist social form…
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