Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason

The total aggregate surplus value created is distributed among individual capitalists not according to the surplus value they produce but according to the capital they advance

realization. However the sale of commodities, the realization of commodity capital, and thus of surplus-value as well, is restricted not by the consumer needs of society in general, but by the consumer needs of a society in which the great majority are always poor and must always remain poor