Barge Haulers on the Volga Ilya Repin (1870-1873) Kimmo Huosionmaa Barge Haulers on the Volga is a portrait, where great Russian artist thinks about work. This portrait raises the question in the people head: who actually does the job? There are many aspects in this portrait, and one of them is, who actually does everything in the state? Who goes to war in if the ruler of the state would want to go to the war? In the real life is always people, who get more about their jobs than others in that group. The role of the suffering is always reserved to workers, who don’t, of course, have any education. This portrait might inspire Karl Marx or Friedrich Engels in the Surplus Value Theory, what has transformed in the hands of sociologists to the theory, what has the same name, but different content and message to the people. In sociology, The Surplus Value Theory means that some workers don’t do anything in their workplace, and the leaders of the state would see differen...