[lbo-talk] What's capital? How do we find it/them?

[Charles Brown]

"To be a capitalist, is to have not only a purely personal, but a social
STATUS in production. Capital is a collective product, and only by the
united action of many members, nay, in the last resort, only by the united
action of all members of society, can it be set in motion. 

Capital is therefore not only personal; it is a social power. 

When, therefore, capital is converted into common property, into the
property of all members of society, personal property is not thereby
transformed into social property. It is only the social character of the
property that is changed. It loses its class character. "