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surplus value
noun
- (in Marxian economics) the part of the value of a commodity that exceeds the cost of labor, regarded as the profit of the capitalist.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of surplus value1
First recorded in 1885–90
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Example Sentences
The surplus value in production is trifling and seems large only because concentrated in comparatively few hands.
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Since the economic factor is the determining factor, what does the law of Surplus Value furnish us?
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The capitalist class strives to get more surplus value and the working class strives to get more wages.
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Now surplus value, as we have seen, is of two kinds, absolute and relative.
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The economists of the capitalist era talk solely of the means and ways by which profit and surplus value may be increased.
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