According to Karl Marx, when a worker applies labor to some set of raw materials,
A) the capitalist will surely exploit them.
B) the materials will have been immorally obtained from colonial undertakings.
C) the resulting product becomes the property of the worker.
D) value is added.

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According to Marx, when a worker applies labor to raw materials, value is added. This added value is what the capitalist exploits to make a profit, as they own the means of production and can pay the worker less than the value they produce. Marx believed that this exploitation was the foundation of capitalism and the cause of class conflict between the proletariat (working class) and bourgeois (capitalist class). However, Marx did not believe that the resulting product became the property of the worker, as ownership of the means of production was key in his analysis of social relations.

According to Karl Marx, When a Worker Applies Labor to Some