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Kapital for the Twenty-First Century?
- Dissent
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 61, Number 2, Spring 2014
- pp. 77-82
- 10.1353/dss.2014.0032
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What is “capital”? To Karl Marx, it was a social, political, and legal category—the means of control of the means of production by the dominant class. Capital could be money, it could be machines; it could be fixed and it could be variable. But the essence of capital was neither physical nor financial. It was the power that capital gave to capitalists, namely the authority to make decisions and to extract surplus from the worker.