We profesh, accomplished historians; we have editors and big, mainstream publishers. Of course nothing like that rudimentary question e ven comes up. 

Not sure it's collective malice or collective blindspot

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It's amazing that no one pointed out that capital is at least a concept that should be defined clearly for a work like this.

I could understand not defining labor because you assume everyone intuitively understands what that is, but capital is a technical abstract concept. As you point out, money isn't exactly capital but it's usually a large part of what we count as capital and there are reasons why doing so is not insane, so an attempt at explaining what we're talking about is warranted.

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CAPITALISM Book Club #4: Interlude — We Need To Talk About Capital

It's amazing that no one pointed out that capital is at least a concept that should be defined clearly for a work like this.

I could understand not defining labor because you assume everyone intuitively understands what that is, but capital is a technical abstract concept. As you point out, money isn't exactly capital but it's usually a large part of what we count as capital and there are reasons why doing so is not insane, so an attempt at explaining what we're talking about is warranted.