Abstract: Marx demonstrated in detail that “capital is a kind of social relations of production”, which not only criticizes thoroughly the essential defects of the former concept of “capital”, but also points out that capital has the dual attributes of class nature and sociality. While criticizing the class nature of capital, it also fully affirms its sociality, that is, as a modern force, it promotes the production of generalized commodities and makes the relations of production acquire new contents. This historical view of the role of capital has important practical significance for the rational use of capital on the current “road of China”: We cannot go back to the western path of capitalism, which ultimately leads to the confrontation between labor and capital based on the premise of capital class, nor can we deny capital completely and negate its positive role in commodity production based on the market. Instead, we should walk out of a “China road” which is mainly concerned with managing capital and promoting the cooperation mode between government and social capital. In the use of capital to speed up the development of the summary of capital criticism of the “Chinese discourse” and characteristics.

Key words: capital attribute, “China road”, practical significance