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Today the world is still dominated by capitalism. This means that Marx’s analysis of capital must remain the basis for understanding twentieth-century economic development. This does not deny that capitalism has changed, but the fundamental relations of production are unaltered: the monopoly of means of production and their operating for profit by capital, with wage-slavery for labour.
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Fine, B. (1975). Marx’s Economics and Contemporary Capitalism. In: Marx’s Capital. Macmillan Studies in Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02485-8_10
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