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Capitalism   /kˈæpɪtəlˌɪzəm/   Listen
Capitalism

noun
1.
An economic system based on private ownership of capital.  Synonym: capitalist economy.



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"Capitalism" Quotes from Famous Books



... 1. The Social Structure. 2. Specialization, Association, Co-operation. 3. Three Lines of Economic Organization. 4. Economic Forms. 5. Limitations on Capitalism. 6. The Growth of Capitalism. 7. Effective Economic Units. 8. Classes of Economic Units. 9. The Ideal ...
— The Next Step - A Plan for Economic World Federation • Scott Nearing

... Capitalism is tottering to its downfall. The world is in chaos and revolution. The Supreme Court has handed down a decision which ostensibly will assist in preserving established order, but the United States is a Capitalist nation and, as Mr. Wilson himself ...
— The Debs Decision • Scott Nearing

... different things. The great issue may, according to the period, be a primeval taboo, the utterances of the Delphic oracle, the Athanasian creed, the Inquisition, the geocentric theory, monarchy by the grace of God, witchcraft, slavery, war, capitalism, private property, or noble isolation. All of these tend to appear to the conservative under the aspect of eternity, but all of these things have come, many of them have gone, and the remainder would seem to be subject to undreamed-of modifications as ...
— The Mind in the Making - The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform • James Harvey Robinson

... Democrats and the meaning of the Marxian creed. For it was an essential part of the Gospel according to St. Marx that the revolution, if it ever came, would come peacefully, inevitably, with the people raising their little finger, through the mere automatic pressure of economic concentration. Capitalism itself, so the Socialists said, was working for the triumph of Socialism. Once the process of concentration of production was complete, once all the capital was gathered in a few hands, the German revolution would come of itself, ...
— German Problems and Personalities • Charles Sarolea

... the Social Revolution just as soon as we're educated up to it," he was wont to declare. "If we get it before then, it'll be a worse hash than capitalism. So ...
— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams


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