ABSTRACT
The next section of Capital III deals with the further transformations of values induced by yet another set of exploiters who enter the stage with irresistible demands for surplus-value, based on their contribution of specific resources and services to capitalist production and circulation. First, Part 4 (Chapters 16–20) links back to the forms of commodity capital and money capital and shows how in fully developed capitalism they are transformed into the independent capital forms of trade and commercial capital, which also gets its share of profits through mechanisms of transference that in new ways modify values and prices. Part 5 (Chapter 21–36) then analyses interest-bearing capital, credit and banks in a similar manner. Finally, in Part 6 (Chapter 37–47), the focus is on landowning, monopolised natural resources and ‘ground-rent’.
