(How The Theory of Conceptual-Commodity-Value-Management Guarantees Increasing Profits With Less Workers)
Part One
Karl Marx has always claimed that the introduction of machinery within the capitalist labor-process was orchestrated to cheapen commodities and in the process also to cheapen labor-power. As he states, in Capital (Volume One), “the use of machinery [is] for the exclusive purpose of cheapening the product”, that is, the commodity, and labor-power being a commodity, means in turn that labor-power is as well cheapened in the process. Moreover, according to Marx, besides lowering wages via the cheapening of workers and labor-power, the introduction of machinery is utilized to eliminate workers and their labor-power outright from the sum of capitalist production, namely, through “the introduction of new machinery…not only are the workers directly turned out by…machines set free, but so are their future replacements in the rising generation” as well excluded. For Marx, “a tool is a simple machine and a machine is a complex tool” in the sense that a machine “is a mechanism that, after being set in motion, performs with its tools the same operations as the worker formerly did with similar tools”. As a result, Marx states, “machinery and labor are in constant competition”, locked in perpetual struggle for supremacy in the sense that “when it becomes the job of the machine to handle [the worker’s] tool, the use-value of the…