Add to ORKGInternational audienceIn the transition toward cognitive capitalism, the transformations in the social organization of production are strictly connected to those in income distribution. This evolution is deeply characterized by the re-emerging of the rent under different forms. The aim of this article is to provide a Marxist interpretation of these mutations and their social and economic implications. The analysis is organized in two parts. First, the Marxian definition of wage, rent and profit is revisited. Doing so, we revert to the insights given by Marx himself in the Third Book of Capital, where he shows how profit could become rent. This approach can be usefully linked to the hypothesis of general intellect in order to better understa...
