Open AccessTEORIA MARXISTA DO VALOR: UMA INTRODUÇÃO
Author(s) -
Alfredo SaadFilho
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
análise econômica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2176-5456
pISSN - 0102-9924
DOI - 10.22456/2176-5456.10736
Subject(s) - surplus value , capitalism , commodity , value (mathematics) , economics , capital (architecture) , neoclassical economics , wage , relation (database) , value theory , process (computing) , sociology , classical economics , market economy , political science , epistemology , philosophy , law , mathematics , geography , politics , statistics , archaeology , database , computer science , operating system
This article provides an elementary introduction to the basic concepts of the Marxian theory of value and exploitation. The paper explores the concepts of commodity use value and exchange value, concrete and abstract labour, and the relationship between value and money it also explains the nature of the capital relation, the process of exploitation of the wage workers and the extraction of surplus value, and the process of competition. The article concludes with an analysis of the most important contradictions of capitalism.