Individual Capital

Corresponding to “social capital”. It refers to the form of capital in capitalist society which functions and operates independently to realize the valorization of its own value. Various individual capitals are a component part of the aggregate social capital and constitute the links in the chain of the process of reproduction of the aggregate social capital.

Under the conditions of capitalist private property, individual capitals are separated from each other in the process of reproduction and circulate and turnover independently, realizing the valorization of their value. However, in the actual capitalist socialized large-scale production, individual capitals cannot move in isolation from each other; they are interdependent and intersecting, consequently the interconnected movements of numerous individual capitals form the movement of social capital.

Individual capital is a component part of social capital, and once the circuit and turnover of various individual capitals are interrupted, the movement of aggregate social capital will also be affected, thus negatively affect the reproduction of social capital.