Four Explanations for the Value Source of Digital Capitalism——On the Scientificity of Marx's Labor Theory of Value
Contemporary left-wing scholars have studied the value sources of digital capitalism.Autonomy Marxism holds that dig-ital capital grabs surplus value from the"general intelligence"of platform users.Communication political economy thinks that dig-ital capital can grab surplus value by occupying the"digital labor"of platform users for free.Rent theory holds that digital capital transfers value from other departments by monopolizing the platform.The theory of financialization holds that the rapid expansion of digital capital mainly stems from the speculative pursuit of new formats of digital economy by financial capital.The four theories a-dopt the attitudes of"revision","expansion","analogy"and"suspension"respectively to Marx's labor theory of value.Based on Marx's complete theoretical system of labor value,we should judge the value source of digital capital according to the social function performed by digital platform.The reason why digital capital can quickly obtain the value transfer from other departments is because it represents the latest development stage of the capital intermediation process.
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