surplus value

noun

(in Marxian economics) the part of the value of a commodity that exceeds the cost of labor, regarded as the profit of the capitalist.

Origin of surplus value

First recorded in 1885–90

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Historical Examples of surplus value

Since IIc amounts to only 1,430, it is necessary to take 70 from the surplus-value.
The Accumulation of Capital
Rosa Luxemburg
By surplus-value (Mehrwert) the author means all that is produced above and beyond the bare necessities of life.
The New Society
Walther Rathenau
They must content themselves with what Kropotkine has taught them about Marx's "surplus-value."
Anarchism and Socialism
George Plechanoff
Its purely economic deductions are dominated throughout by the theory of surplus-value.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 17, Slice 7
Various
Deducting these there remains the net or surplus-product, in which the surplus-value lies.
The Accumulation of Capital
Rosa Luxemburg