Abstract: Marx's profound exposition of the value production process in the era of capitalist industrial economy provides a highly explanatory theoretical perspective for portraying the changes in productive forces and relations of production in the value production process of the digital economy. The value production process of the digital economy consists of two aspects: The first is the transfer of value of data-a key means of production. The two forms of value of data produce different substitution effects in the transfer of value, further dismantling the technological basis of the division of human mental labor; the networked production of data generates a "false social value" of platforms, exacerbating the invisible separation of networked laborers from the conditions of their labor; and capital exerts a different kind of dominance over digital laborers, reflecting the antagonistic relationship between laborers and the digital means of production. The different dominance of capital over the digital worker reflects the antagonistic relationship between the worker and the digital means of production. Second, the value creation of digital living labor. The expansion of the organizational form and labor mode of digital labor has achieved the production of multiple implicit surplus values, and developed node–based network social labor with informal collaborative characteristics; The labor process presents a temporal and spatial overlap of "technology labor process" and "de technology labor process" coexisting; The trend towards data-driven and algorithmic digital labor itself and the process of creating labor value is increasing.

Key words:

digital economy, value production, digital labor, digital means of production