As a result of accumulation of capital and increase in the productivity of labor, it manifests itself as the corresponding expansion of the scale of the means of production and the corresponding change in the mass of labor-power. The accumulation of capital is examined in terms of the increase in capital-value, while the concentration of capital is examined in terms of the increase in the means of production and the change in the mass of labor-power. Marx pointed out that every individual capital is a larger or smaller concentration of means of production, with a corresponding command over a larger or smaller army of workers…
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