Functioning capital that plays a part in the sphere of commodity circulation. In the circuit of industrial capital, there is always a part of capital, which assumes the form of commodity capital. With the growing scale of production and the continuous development of the social division of labor, the function of commodity capital has gradually been separated from industrial capital and has become the function of commercial capital, which specializes in the purchase and sale of commodities and independently performs the function of commodity capital for the purpose of obtaining commercial profit. Commercial profit reflects the relation between commercial capitalists and industrial capitalists in their joint division of the surplus-value created by wage-laborers…
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