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[65] Hans: Marx's Capital is not a blueprint for a better society Both answers to this question believe that Marx's Capital represents
Marx's proposal for a better society. Nothing could be further from
the truth. Marx is trying to give a critical analysis of capitalism
as it existed during his time, and as it still exists today. His
critique of capitalism has two prongs. On the one hand, Marx
establishes that the market value of commodities is determined by
labor-time. In other words, only the workers, not the capitalists or
managers or banks create this value. Then, a little later into the
book, he will say that the wages of the workers are far below the
value they create. Those two things together mean that profits are
based on exploitation, and that the capitalists should be kicked out.
Right now we are only at the first prong of this critique, therefore
it is not entirely clear that it is a critique. Please keep this in
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