Talk:Superprofit

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Superprofit (or surplus profit or extra surplus-value; in German: extra-Mehrwert), is a concept in Karl Marx's critique of political economy, subsequently elaborated by Lenin and other Marxist thinkers.

Comment: 'extra-Mehrwert' is NOT the same thing as superprofits!

While 'extra-Mehrwert' has to do with above-average surplus-value obtained through, i.e., technological advantages in a company or sector of the economy that the competitor does not have (yet), superprofits refer specifically to profits obtained by the imperialist/colonial bourgeoisie in their exploitation of work force in the dependent, by imperialism dominated, countries.

What is going on in this article? Did someone try and post a comment in the actual body of the article instead of using the talk page? If this can be fixed it would be awesome - otherwise, I'll try and do surgery on my own.

ManicParroT 01:36, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

I cut the text above from the main article and pasted it here, since it was quite clearly making the article contradict itself. I know little about this issue, but if extra-Mehrwert = superprofit, the article should consistently express this. If not, it should say so. Thanks.

ManicParroT 06:41, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Problematic
This whole article is problematic. It appears to confuse "super profits" with "super surplus value", which are technically different. It lumps together some very different cases. The issues analysed by Lenin have nothing to do with the examples given by Marx. It has very few citations, and a lot of the material seems to be the individual opinions of contributors. I wonder if this article should just be removed.--Jack Upland (talk) 09:44, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

PS Searching Marx's writings in the marxists.org archive I couldn't find a single mention of superprofits. He does use the term "extra surplus value", but only rarely, when talking about businesses with high productivity, and this is only in passing, not as an important theoretical point.--Jack Upland (talk) 05:00, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Grammar
There are grammar mistakes in the reference section, i.e., "Investor-partner business parter finder business dictionairy, that I do not know how to correct.

Nantucketnoon (talk) 17:59, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Criticism section and confusion
I agree with above comments that extra-surplus value and superprofits are not the same thing. There are also some other issues with this article which have not been mentioned, for example the criticism section (entirely unsourced), which seems to be criticising the concept of a labour aristocracy rather than superprofits themselves, which are relatively uncontroversial. I will try to improve the above aspects in time unless there are objections.Mirkyton (talk) 10:06, 16 August 2021 (UTC)


 * I agree, however I see little reason why this page should not just be deleted. Cheddagedda (talk) 02:46, 21 December 2023 (UTC)