Social capital, cultural capital, capital health, beauty capital, human capital, natural capital - all seem to be »capital« today. Against the imperialism of economics, Peter Streckeisen gives a new reading to Karl Marx's Das Kapital. He puts the emphasis on the social forms of capital and points to blind spots in Bourdieu's theory of capital. His Marxist criticism helps us rediscover Marx as an economic critic and scores a goal for the sociological theory of capital. The book is also aimed at an interested public skeptically confronting the increasing dominance of economic thinking.