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>the capitalists (the owner) steals your surplus value (price of commodity - cost of production = surplus value).
No dumb fuck, Marx do something even simpler.
Seize the means of production. Capitalists seizes the means of production, to maintain the means of production. I.e ownership of machines, trade connections, segregating company into parts to not allow IP theft, IP monopoly, and a lot more.
The CAPITALIST will try to seize the means of production. If you start talking about surplus value of labor, you have lost sight of the entire production chain Marx is talking about. You are already 4 steps behind Marx, and you can't catch up to the basic fundamental of western capitalism.

So talking about stealing is even more meaningless in context, because the capitalist or organization will try to hold control over the means of production, to keep that value inside their walls.
Its why trade secrets vs patents are a thing, as well as the entire mess of things like submarine patents and patent trolling. Its also why securing proper industry is important to development of nations, as well as rare earth materials.
Its why China prioritizes price dumping on metals, to secure a monopoly of rare earth technology, so they eventually control the means to produce rare earth metals.

Even more important: Its why workers can be interchangeable and disposable, but management have secure jobs.
Talking about surplus ignores the entire chain that causes exploitation to take place.
And this is why Marx has stood the test of time, while more charismatic communists has failed to have lasting impact. Marx can't be proven wrong, as his core theory accurately reflects how hoarding of power works.

Let me repeat:
SEIZE
THE
MEANS
OF
PRODUCTION