ABSTRACT
Authors explain in detail the great civilizing influence of capital from three perspectives: promoting productivity through capital, to create material and technological conditions for the new future society; creating more free time, to fully cultivate high-quality talents for a new future society; and encouraging new social factors, to nurture socialist production relations. The aim of capitalist production is to create surplus value. Marx said: The development of the productive force of labour—first the positing of surplus labour—is a necessary condition for the growth of value or the realization of capital. As the infinite urge to wealth, it strives consistently towards infinite increase of the productive forces of labour and calls them into being. The production of surplus value—in the form hitherto considered by us—by means of simple extension of the working day, proved, therefore, to be independent of any change in the mode of production itself.
