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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Capitalism is an economic and social system in which the means of production are privately controlled. Capitalism may also refer to: Capitalist mode of production , the socio-economic base of a capitalist society Capitalism: A Love Story , a 2009 documentary ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an economic system based on private ownership of capital [syn: capitalist economy ] [ant: socialism ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES laissez-faire economics/capitalism COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE advanced ▪ The development from liberal to advanced capitalism has two characteristics. ▪ In advanced capitalism neo-Marxists argue that the factors ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context politics uncountable English) a socio-economic system based on private property rights, including the private ownership of resources or capital, with economic decisions made largely through the operation of a market unregulated by the state. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1854, "condition of having capital;" from capital (n.1) + -ism . Meaning "political/economic system which encourages capitalists" is recorded from 1872.
Usage examples of capitalism.
Long ago authors as diverse as Lenin, Horkheimer and Adorno, and Debord recognized this spectacle as the destiny oftriumphant capitalism.
By the vast reward that the newer system gave to individual enterprise, to technical improvement and to investment, capitalism proved the aptest tool for the creation and preservation of wealth ever devised.
They merely continue to operate capitalism for their own benefit by constantly raising wages, creating a huge army of bureaucrats and taxing the upper classes out of existence.
New Conservatives to build cores like it in every English city, showcases for a top-led society, the acceptable face of capitalism.
In other words, the deconstruction of the historia rerum gestarum, of the spectral reign of globalized capitalism, reveals the possibility of alternative social organizations.
Industrial unionism recognizes that capitalism is not only interindustrial, so to speak, but also international.
This world of decentralized, small- scale nodes, with instant global access for the best and brightest, would be a perfect milieu for the shoestring attic capitalism that made Mitch Kapor what he is today.
Coven-cum-ecological-action-group-cum-Ralfiecult-cum-what-may called the Sisterhood of Man who believed that it had all gone wrong when the Omphalos of logical positivism first violated the Sacred Womb of Life by leading the Monkey People out of the trees or inventing carnivoristic phallocratic capitalism, whichever came first.
Capitalism sets in motion a continuous cycle of private reappropriation of public goods: the expropriation of what is common.
Capitalism cannot co-exist with a system that reserves power and privilege to a hereditary minority, a system which suppresses the free-market principles of labour and goods.
KPD, egged on by the Comintern representatives, looked increasingly for a showdown with German capitalism.
After the Civil War, a new coalition of southern and northern elites developed, with southern whites and blacks of the lower classes occupied in racial conflict, native workers and immigrant workers clashing in the North, and the farmers dispersed over a big country, while the system of capitalism consolidated itself in industry and government.
According to popular lore, capitalism makes sure that innovators are rewarded for their time and skills since property rights are enshrined in enforceable contracts.
We need a leadership capable of mobilising the colossal power of the labour movement to put an end to capitalism and Stalinism once and for all - and with it the system that gave birth to the monstrous fascist regimes of the inter-war period.
The first great revolutionary wave had now ebbed and capitalism had succeeded temporarily in stabilising itself.