Talk:Capital (Marxism)

"Historically specific"
I've tagged the description "historically specific" in the lede as needing clarification, because I don't understand what it means. Is the suggestion that these have been specific social relations but are no longer so? Or something else? Wham2001 (talk) 11:21, 7 July 2022 (UTC)

Proposed merge
I propose merging Capital (Marxism) into Capital (economics). I think the content in Marx's analysis of capital can easily be explained in the context of the economic understanding of capital, and a merger would not cause any article-size or weighting problems in Capital (economics).FatalSubjectivities (talk) 08:17, 5 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Agree this is a good idea and Capital (Marxism) is very thin on content anyway. BeaujolaisFortune (talk) 19:20, 6 October 2022 (UTC)
 * nah man capital in the marxian understanding is a social relation and not a physical thing like goods and assets. completely different things 194.239.215.20 (talk) 10:06, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
 * yup Sure, the marxian understanding of 'Capital' is a social relation indeed. However, capital can, at the same time, be 'goods and assets'. In fact, Marxists have a whole theory of how social relations become physical: Reification (Marxism).
 * The point of merging the articles is to show that Marx ain't plucking words from the sky, but rather, building his analysis of social relations on economic terminology. FatalSubjectivities (talk) 12:49, 13 October 2022 (UTC)


 * I feel that Marx's interpretation of capital is sufficiently distinct that it does deserve its own topic. That said, the current page is a stub, and the Marxian critique of political economy is mentioned several times in Capital (economics). I would support a merge only if the portions of that article relating to the Marxist interpretation are collected and gathered in its own section (rather than spread out throughout Capital (economics), as it is now). aismallard (talk) 17:09, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

User:Aismallard - no objections from me. but I'm thinking, should we instead rename (Move) this page to something like "Marxist view on capital"? FatalSubjectivities (talk) 15:55, 15 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Are there other articles which are titled something like "Marxist view on (topic)"? aismallard (talk) 00:15, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

Propose Convert to disambiguation page
This article could be converted to 'Capital in Marxism (disambiguation)'

Constant capital

Variable capital

Fictitious capital

Monopoly Capital FatalSubjectivities (talk) 02:53, 30 November 2022 (UTC)