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How Marx's theory of value does (and doesn't) connect to his theory of exploitation.

Anyone who’s made it through even the first few pages of Capital knows that Marx thinks the value of a commodity is the average socially necessary labor time it takes to produce it (once we’ve abstracted away from all of the differences between different particular labor processes). While he’s always careful to distinguish between value and actual marke…