Given Resnick and Wolff's Marxian Class Model, What Is the Relationship

question 11

Multiple Choice

Given Resnick and Wolff's Marxian class model, what is the relationship between Apple investors and the assembly line workers of Foxconn in China who make the iPhone?

• A) Investors are capitalist who appropriate surplus value.
• B) Investors receive the distributed surplus.
• C) None, because Apple Corporation receives the surplus value.
• D) Apple investors actually give their surplus value to Apple.

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