Does the Digital Sector Produce Surplus-Value? The Case of Facebook

This article shows that the digital economy can, as opposed to the opinion of many, be analysed on the basis of Marx’s theory of surplus-value and profit. What we show through a study of the political economy of Facebook is that the product produced by the company in question is a commodity just like others. Moreover, the surplus-value produced by the productive workers of Facebook is the main source of the profits of the company and the wages of its unproductive workers.