ABSTRACT
Marx demonstrates that the nature of capitalism is hidden by the illusions created by commodity circulation. Chapters 2 and 3 revealed two of these illusions: (1) the productive power of the working population appears as the productive power of a few (capital organizes production because it has established a monopoly of the means of production not because of its productive role); and (2) the apparent reward for the productivity of capital is no more than the rule for distribution of income among the dominant class of society (capitalists appropriate part of the labor of workers and distribute it among themselves).
