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Capital, crucial to capitalism, signifies financial wealth used for business investment, distinct from personal savings or housing. Capitalism empowers private individuals with capital to invest, profit, and retain earnings, contrasting sharply with communism's state-owned property and centralized production. Marxist theory highlights the class struggle between the bourgeoisie (capitalist minority owning capital and profiting from investments) and the proletariat (working-class majority lacking capital, reliant on wages). Private property is fundamental to capitalism; its protection ensures capitalists retain investment returns, unlike under communism's state redistribution.

Capital refers to financial wealth especially the one that is used to start businesses (rather than emergency savings or the house you live in). Capitalism is a system which gives private individuals with capital the freedom to invest, make money and retain profit. The opposite of Capitalism is Communism, where the state owns all the property and makes all of the decisions about what to produce. In Marxist theory. - a theory originated by Karl Marx, which focuses on the struggle between capitalists and the working class- the Capitalist class are known as the Bourgeoisie who are the minority class with capital who make money from profits on investments. The majority is the Proletariat, the working class who has no or little capital and has to work for a living. Private property is crucial to Capitalism, because the protection of private property rights is what makes the system work: the capitalist class is allowed to maintain the wealth from their investments, rather than having their property redistributed by the state, as would happen under communism.