There was switch from a fair market, where a commodity was made then sold in order to buy another needed i.e., C-M-C to a capitalist market where money is put into commodity and the commodity is then sold i.e., M-C-M. this switch resulted in a complete flip of access and immediately put the people with money in a place of power. Those with money would then acquire commodities and therefore build capital. They could afford to continue to buy for the purpose of selling without limitation and in doing sos increase their capital and wealth . Those who existed and benefited from the fair market (C-M-C) aka the laborers did not have the same access to the wealth that makes the M-C-M system work so they continued to sell their products to the capitalist. Still, capitalist grew bored of this system as the surplus value of these commodities could only be realized when the laborer surrendered their products at a lower price than their actual value in order to avoid seeking customers and instead finding comfort in the ease of selling to a trader. When this happened capitalist would make a profit because M (the initial amount put in) would get them their product (C) and then they loud sell that product at the price it was actually worth and then receive the profit (M’). Capitalist saw there being as better chance for financial growth if instead of buying commodities that weren’t being made fast enough they became the manufacturers of the goods that they sold. so with M they paid for the raw materials labor and everything else that went in to making their product (C), and then used part of the profit and wealth they accumulated to start this process over and over. Now with this new system set in place the term surplus value now refers to labor and more spefically the extra labor power an individual has after meeting the total value it took to create their labor. This surplus value is where wealth lies for capitalist. Within this system too capitalist work to intensify labor without adding more labor time and without increasing wages so that though a worker may only work 8 hours they are speeding up, operating more machinery and overseeing more responsibilities all of the sake of increasing the absolute labor value.

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