Unemployment caused by capital accumulation is caused by the improvement of the organic composition of capital caused by capitalism's pursuit of surplus value. How to understand?

One of the ways of capital accumulation is to improve production technology and promote the improvement of production efficiency, so as to extract the surplus value of workers and optimize the organic composition of capital. At the same time, the improvement of production technology and efficiency is accompanied by the expansion of mechanized production, which leads to a person's unemployment.

The technical composition of capital is closely related to the value composition of capital. The technical composition of capital determines the value composition of capital, and it is manifested through the value composition.

In order to illustrate the relationship between them, Marx called this kind of capital value composition, which is determined by capital technology composition and can reflect the change of technology composition, the organic composition of capital, and its formula is C (constant capital): V (variable capital).

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Put forward the principle of organic composition of capital

In order to deeply study the influence of capital accumulation on the development of capitalism, Marx creatively put forward the category of organic composition of capital. The composition of capital can be investigated from two aspects: material form and value form.

In material form, capital consists of a certain amount of means of production and labor, and the proportion between them is determined by the technical level of production. This ratio between the means of production and the labor force, which is determined by the level of production technology, is called the technical composition of capital.

On the other hand, in the form of value, capital consists of a certain amount of constant capital and variable capital, and the ratio of constant capital to variable capital is called the value composition of capital.

There is an inherent organic connection between the technical composition and the value composition of capital. Generally speaking, the change of capital technology composition will cause the change of value composition, and the change of capital value composition generally reflects the change of technology composition.

Marx called the value composition of capital as the value composition of capital, which is determined by the composition of capital technology, reflecting the change of the composition of capital technology, that is, the organic composition of capital, which is usually expressed by C: V. With the development of capitalism, the organic composition of capital has a trend of continuous improvement, which shows that the proportion of constant capital in all capital increases and the proportion of variable capital decreases.

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