Capital is a central concept in Marxian
critique of political economy, and in Marxian thought more generally.
Marxists view capital as a
social relation reproduced by the continuous expenditure of
wage labour. Labour and capital are viewed as historically specific forms of social relations.
Marx on capital
Marx stated that "''Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.''"
See also
*Forms of capital in Marxism:
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Constant capital
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Variable capital
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Fictitious capital
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Monopoly Capital''
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Robert Kurz
Robert Kurz (24 December 1943 – 18 July 2012) was a German Marxist philosopher, social critic, journalist and editor of the journal ''Exit!'' He was one of Germany's most prominent theorists of value criticism.
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Moishe Postone
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Roman Rozdolsky
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Property is theft!''
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Private property#Criticism
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