Karl Marx's song "Distribution Relations and Production Relations" (Chap. 3.51) discusses the division of newly created value among labor, capital, and landowners in a capitalist society. Marx explains that the way in which the annual product is divided into wages, profit, and rent is a result of the specific historical form of production relations and distribution relations. He argues that these relations are not natural, but rather the result of the capitalist mode of production. Marx discusses how the production of surplus value is the direct aim of capitalist production, and how profit is the main factor in the distribution of capitals and labor among various spheres of production. He also explains that the so-called distribution relations are merely the expression of the specific historical form of the process of production and mutual relations entered into by people in the reproduction process of human life. Overall, the song delves into the specific historical characteristics of distribution relations and production relations, and how they are determined by the capitalist mode of production. It emphasizes the conflict between the material development of production and its social form, and how this conflict leads to a crisis that ultimately leads to the transition to a higher form of production.
