Capital (n.) is a social relationship between those with means of production and those who sell their labor.
Capital (n.) is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
Capital (n.) is, in bourgeois society, independent and possessed of individuality, whereas the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
Capital (n.) is reckless with the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
Capital (n.) is money that has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
Capital (n.) develops in the same proportion as develops the laboring class (proletariat). The laborer finds work only insofar as his labor increases capital.
Capital (n.) necessarily constitutes a system of plunder whenever it occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy.