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The question of Free Trade or Protection moves entirely within the bounds of the present system of capitalist production, and has, therefore, no direct interest for us socialists who want to do away with that system. Indirectly, however, it interests us inasmuch as we must desire as the present system of production to develop and expand as freely and as quickly as possible: because along with it will develop also those economic phenomena which are its necessary consequences, and which must destroy the whole system: misery of the great mass of the people, in consequence of overproduction. This overproduction engendering either periodical gluts and revulsions, accompanied by panic, or else a chronic stagnation of trade; division of society into a small class of large capitalist, and a large one of practically hereditary wage-slaves, proletarians, who, while their numbers increase constantly, are at the same time constantly being superseded by new labor-saving machinery; in short, society brought to a deadlock, out of which there is no escaping but by a complete remodeling of the economic structure which forms it basis.

Most of the criticisms of the labor theory of value are moral justifications for profit, i.e., the capitalist is entitled to profit because of this or that reason. Marx, though, doesn’t even condemn capitalism on a moral basis. Exploitation of labor power is value neutral, and Marx never supported a system where everyone received “the full value of their labor”, since that would make investment impossible. Capitalism is condemned, for Marx, by its own internal contradictions, namely, the long-term tendency of the rate of profit to fall.

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