#+title: Machines in Marx's political economy
- tags :: [[file:20201111222005-capital.org][Capital]] [[file:20200607142247-political_economy.org][political economy]] [[file:20200716142057-constant_capital.org][constant capital]]
- source :: [[file:literature/20200611201816-capital.org][Capital Vol. 1]]

Machines, according to Marx in Captial Vol. 1, may replace [[file:20200716135348-labor_power.org][labor-power]] but
themselves do not create value. They are a form of constant capital, which
itself has value and incrementally transfers its value into the products it
makes.