Every individual capital is a larger or smaller concentration of means of
 production, with a corresponding command over a larger or smaller labour-army.
 Every accumulation becomes the means of new accumulation. With the increasing
 mass of wealth which functions as capital, accumulation increases the
 concentration of that wealth in the hands of individual capitalists, and
 thereby widens the basis of production on a large scale and of the specific
 methods of capitalist production. The 586growth of social capital is
 effected by the growth of many individual capitals. All other circumstances
 remaining the same, individual capitals, and with them the concentration of the
 means of production, increase in such proportion as they form aliquot parts of
 the total social capital. At the same time portions of the original capitals
 disengage themselves and function as new independent capitals. Besides other
 causes, the division of property, within capitalist families, plays a great
 part in this. With the accumulation of capital, therefore, the number of
 capitalists grows to a greater or less extent. Two points characterise this
 kind of concentration which grows directly out of, or rather is identical with,
 accumulation. First: The increasing concentration of the social means of
 production in the hands of individual capitalists is, other things remaining
 equal, limited by the degree of increase of social wealth. Second: The part of
 social capital domiciled in each particular sphere of production is divided
 among many capitalists who face one another as independent commodity-producers
 competing with each other. Accumulation and the concentration accompanying it
 are, therefore, not only scattered over many points, but the increase of each
 functioning capital is thwarted by the formation of new and the sub-division of
 old capitals. Accumulation, therefore, presents itself on the one hand as
 increasing concentration of the means of production, and of the command over
 labour; on the other, as repulsion of many individual capitals one from
 another.