this post was submitted on 13 May 2026
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It's intending to obscure the capitalist relation. The farmer is petty bourgeois (and practically non-existent, agriculture in many countries is extremely proletarianized these days). The loom worker is proletarian, the capitalist A is turning 4 dollars in wool, 1 dollar in tax, and 2 dollars in labor power for 1 dollar in profit. The sewer is also proletarian, the capitalist B turns 8 dollars in raw materials + 1 dollar tax + 2 dollars labor power into 1 dollar in profit.
Capitalist A and B both make 1 dollar in profit per commodity produced, and so redirect that towards expansion of production with the remainder of their money after covering their necessities. Both proletarians along the supply chain had 1 dollar stolen from them per commodity produced in surplus value, and the "Marxist" at the end is a strawman.
Finally, cost of maintaining the tools used and purchasing new ones I am assuming is a part of the "raw materials" category.
I know this is mostly talking about surplus value, but it also really obscures the levers of power here. Generally, the worker doesn't get some money and then give some to the capitalist unless they're petty bourgeois. Most often the worker does the work, the money goes to the capitalist, and the capitalist decides which amount to give out to the worker, doing the calculation enough to pay them the least amount necessary.
The capitalist is the one that not only decides what loom or sewing machine to buy, but whether the worker can stay employed, what benefits they get, how long they work and when they get breaks, how to expand the business, they pay the state to help decide who gets taxed and how much and how those taxes are spent, and more.
Yep, well-said! It's deliberately to make it seem like capitalism is an exclusively voluntary and equal system.
Yup, and I hear they're....grate
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