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The 22 pages that link to Surplus value, each with the reason it gives.

• Karl MarxRelated: The concept explains how Marx understood capitalist profit as rooted in labor.

• MarxismRelated: It explains how Marxist theory locates exploitation within wage labor.

• Historical materialismRelated: It explains exploitation as a relation embedded in capitalist production.

• Class struggleRelated: It explains how workplace exploitation can give owners and workers opposing economic interests.

• AlienationRelated: Its appropriation connects workers’ productive activity to wealth controlled by others.

• The Communist ManifestoRelated: It helps explain the exploitation that the pamphlet attributes to wage labor, though its full analysis appears elsewhere.

• Labor theory of valueBroader topic: Marx’s account extends labor-based value to explain the source of profit.

• Capital accumulationRelated: Marx treats its appropriation as a source of funds for expanding capital.

• Marxian economicsBroader topic: It names the difference Marx uses to explain how profit arises from wage labor.

• ProletariatRelated: Marx uses this concept to explain how wage labor generates profit for capital owners.

• Mode of productionRelated: It describes how capitalist production generates profit through wage labor.

• MarginalismCompared with: The concept offers a rival account of profits and distribution to marginal productivity explanations.

• BourgeoisieRelated: Marx argues that capitalists appropriate this surplus through ownership of production.

• Reserve army of labourRelated: Marx links the reserve army to the conditions under which surplus value is produced.

• Marxist sociologyBroader topic: It specifies how exploitation arises within capitalist production.

• Reform or RevolutionRelated: Its appropriation helps explain why reform does not remove capitalism’s underlying exploitation.

• Scientific socialismRelated: Marx used it to explain exploitation within capitalist production.

• Das KapitalBroader topic: It is the central source of profit in Marx’s account of capitalist exploitation.

• Law of valueRelated: The law’s account of value underpins Marx’s explanation of exploitation and profit.

• Marx's Theory of AlienationRelated: The extraction of surplus helps explain why workers do not control the results of their activity.

• Marxist philosophyRelated: It explains exploitation within capitalist production without relying on unequal exchange alone.

• Scientific communismRelated: It explains the exploitation that Marxist analysis locates at the center of capitalism.