A newspaper article - I can't recall the exact year - liste… - Itsurō Sakisaka

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A newspaper article - I can't recall the exact year - listed the capitalist Kōsuke Matsushita as the person in Japan with the largest income. I don't know anything about Mr. Matsushita personally, and just happened to see this article, but here I would like to use his case to illustrate exploitation. This example, incidentally, will assume that products and labor-power are sold at their value.

Itsurō Sakisaka

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(, February 6, 1897 - January 22, 1985) was a Japanese Marxian economist.

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Alternative Names: Itsuro Sakisaka • Itsurou Sakisaka

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Marx refers to the value invested on the means of production as constant capital.

The idle lives of a minority ruling class can only be maintained by products, needless to say. So the only method to bring about this state of affairs is to appropriate, gratis, the fruits of labor of those who work by the sweat of their brow.

Once the means of production have become capital, a certain quantity of value is augmented through the exploitation of labor. And this valorizing value is capital.

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