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Productive Capital

Capital that exists in the form of the means of production and labor-power; the functional form that industrial capital takes in the second stage of its circuit, i.e., the stage of production. Its function is to transfer the old value of the means of production to the new product through the combination of the means of production and labor in the production process, and to create new value from the labor of the workers to realize the valorization of value…

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