Capital (Marxism)

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 stated that "Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks."