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Capital is nothing other than the set of actually usable resources and powers that an individual possesses. This can take the form of economic, cultural, social, and symbolic capital.

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Capital

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Capital is nothing other than accumulated labor, be it labor which is held in bodies or in things which enables one to enables agents to appropriate social energy.

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Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

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Capital is, in bourgeois society, independent and possessed of individuality, whereas the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

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Capital is anything that can advantage a particular group (field) in society and includes cultural, social, economic and symbolic capital.

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Capital is encapsulated assets which are not money and property. Education, social networks, artistic abilities, and cultural knowledge, as forms of symbolic capital, are all obtained at the expense of labor, and are subject to the same laws as accumulation, inheritance, and exchange that govern material forms of capital.

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Capital is a social relationship between those with means of production and those who sell their labor.