Editing A New Introduction to Capital (section)

==== Conclusion ====
M-C-M' can be very misleading, because of what it implies through language: that there is some temporal sequence.

In reality, the range of 'surplus value' was already created and established beforehand in time (through revolutions in the forces of production). Labor realizes a threshold already established.

M-C-M' should not be understood voluntaristically; in fact, it is a profoundly conservative circuit.

It is not related to some unstoppable thirst for profit. It is not related to the individual capitalist's drive for security or housing.  This is Freudian jurisdiction that should not be confused for Marx; although they are related.

The 'surplus' is already latent, M-C-M' just realizes something that was already there.

Dialectic thinking allows us to see that merely by subsisting, humanity produces an excess, a surplus; we actually do not know what humanity is and what nature is. This surplus reveals to us something about our grounds of being. If 'Being' was a closed circuit, there would be no change. No ecological crisis. No growth. 

We have not exhausted our relation to nature and we never will. There will always be a surplus. Marx Capital is the first-ever investigation of this fact.
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