CAPITALIST


Meaning of CAPITALIST in English

I. noun

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a capitalist society

As consumers in a capitalist society, we can press companies to behave responsibly.

a capitalist/socialist economy (= based on a capitalist or socialist political system )

the large capitalist economies of western Europe

a democratic/capitalist/communist etc country

the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe

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■ ADJECTIVE

advanced

My own study below is no exception and I would not claim an all-embracing explanation of advanced capitalist society from it.

There may be similar trends in imprisonment in other advanced capitalist societies which face similar economic and social problems to Britain.

Writing in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he argued that advanced capitalist societies were caught up in a major contradiction.

The rivalry and interaction between advanced capitalist economies is a feature of this theoretical framework which is absent from world-system theories.

However, even in advanced capitalist countries, the economic effect of degradation and erosion may not be negligible.

The measured unemployment rate for the advanced capitalist countries had fallen below 3 percent.

The propertied class is overrepresented in the governing institutions of all advanced capitalist states.

compassionate

The compassionate capitalist sees herself as a business entrepreneur and a social entrepreneur at the same time.

But Juanita Avalard was also a compassionate capitalist because she gave Isabel a way to help herself.

Before you can truly succeed as a compassionate capitalist , you need to answer that question honestly.

They have taught me by their example what it means to be a compassionate capitalist .

Who are the truly compassionate capitalists that you know?

There are successful compassionate capitalists who have come out of very different ideologies.

So what is a compassionate capitalist to think?

global

Blocs are being seen as increasingly irrelevant today largely because the global capitalist system is perceived as increasingly salient.

To put it crudely, the global capitalist system has very little need of the subordinate classes in this sphere.

What is missing from Field's account is the connection between political transnational practices and the global capitalist system.

In surrendering to the global capitalists , governments are themselves debasing democracy, making it quite useless for people to vote.

The gist of my argument is that the global capitalist system leaves less and less space for exclusively national capitalist projects.

industrial

They seem to appear as if by magic wherever industrial capitalist society grows.

Over the years industrial capitalist society has been casting off many of the more obvious outward signs of inner distress.

Since 1971 this growth has continued, and a similar trend is evident in all Western industrial capitalist societies.

In the West, such bonds have been broken by industrial capitalist society.

The reason is the increasing emphasis on individualism that industrial capitalist society imposes.

major

The commodities boom also affected the major capitalist powers in different ways.

Unemployment in the 1980s is generally regarded as one of the most important political issues facing all major capitalist economies.

It was a key element in the dominant ideology of the nineteenth century in all the major capitalist countries.

modern

A modern capitalist state can not openly use coercive powers to help one class accumulate capital at the expense of others.

Within modern capitalist societies the monopoly corporations constitute the dominant class fraction.

Already many of the remaining noble landowners were developing modern capitalist methods of farming their estates.

But he believed that pacifism could expect support from all the major vested interests in a modern capitalist society.

Angell's central argument was a simple restatement of the interdependence of modern capitalist economies.

This model assumes that the welfare state can combat the worst injustice of modern capitalist societies.

other

Nevertheless, the performance of the economy, while historically remarkable, was inferior to that of other capitalist countries.

There may be similar trends in imprisonment in other advanced capitalist societies which face similar economic and social problems to Britain.

transnational

Not all of the practices of the transnational capitalist class are transnational.

So the idea of the transnational capitalist class includes fractions of both the old indigenous bourgeoisie and the comprador bourgeoisie.

The term transnational capitalist class is used interchangeably in the singular and the plural.

The strength and unity of the transnational capitalist class are, therefore, always open to empirical questions.

These young people are, of course, those from whom tomorrow's transnational capitalist class will be recruited.

This raises the question of political practices and the transnational capitalist class, to which I now turn.

western

The Eastern Bloc has been transformed into a gigantic Enterprise Zone for western capitalists eager to reap the benefits of suppressed consumerism.

Since 1971 this growth has continued, and a similar trend is evident in all Western industrial capitalist societies.

However, it clearly performs a much less crucial or well-defined function than is the case in the Western capitalist economies.

In western capitalist economies the vast majority of governments have sought to reflect this distinction by adopting anti-insider dealing laws.

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class

Not all of the practices of the transnational capitalist class are transnational.

So the idea of the transnational capitalist class includes fractions of both the old indigenous bourgeoisie and the comprador bourgeoisie.

The term transnational capitalist class is used interchangeably in the singular and the plural.

The strength and unity of the transnational capitalist class are, therefore, always open to empirical questions.

These young people are, of course, those from whom tomorrow's transnational capitalist class will be recruited.

This raises the question of political practices and the transnational capitalist class , to which I now turn.

country

Nevertheless, the performance of the economy, while historically remarkable, was inferior to that of other capitalist countries .

However, even in advanced capitalist countries , the economic effect of degradation and erosion may not be negligible.

The measured unemployment rate for the advanced capitalist countries had fallen below 3 percent.

It was a key element in the dominant ideology of the nineteenth century in all the major capitalist countries .

economy

This unequal but in general legitimated social hierarchy had depended on a healthy capitalist economy and benign, prosperous welfare State.

The state according to Castells's perspective, had the central role of ensuring a healthy capitalist economy .

The rivalry and interaction between advanced capitalist economies is a feature of this theoretical framework which is absent from world-system theories.

However: The question now arises: just what are the consciously functioning parts of the world capitalist economy ?

Unemployment in the 1980s is generally regarded as one of the most important political issues facing all major capitalist economies .

Towns of the neo-colonial capitalist economy have yet to function in this way.

But. if this is so. why do capitalist economies do it?

Angell's central argument was a simple restatement of the interdependence of modern capitalist economies .

enterprise

The question arises as to what extent such arrangements can provide a model for the democratisation of the multidivisional capitalist enterprise . 2.

society

Marx believed that the following aspects of capitalist society would eventually lead to the proletariat developing into a class for itself.

There may be similar trends in imprisonment in other advanced capitalist societies which face similar economic and social problems to Britain.

Writing in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he argued that advanced capitalist societies were caught up in a major contradiction.

Marx saw this point of view as legitimizing the institutions on which nineteenth-century capitalist society was built.

Over the years industrial capitalist society has been casting off many of the more obvious outward signs of inner distress.

Mauss's underlying concern was with individualism as an aspect of the fragmentation and disembedded nature of capitalist society .

As in previous capitalist societies , the rich and powerful took only the very best.

But he believed that pacifism could expect support from all the major vested interests in a modern capitalist society .

state

A modern capitalist state can not openly use coercive powers to help one class accumulate capital at the expense of others.

Does it have relevance beyond the interaction of developed capitalist states ?

It presupposes that the functionally optimal capitalist state is in some senses class-neutral.

From their historical perspective Marx and Engels could be forgiven for arguing that late-nineteenth-century Britain had a repressive capitalist state .

Economic crisis may produce political regimes which are radically different from those of even the interventionist capitalist state .

system

The problem ultimately lies in the relative weakness of the Third World economy in the world capitalist system .

The 1972-3 mini-boom 1972 and early 1973 was a period of very rapid growth throughout the world capitalist system .

Blocs are being seen as increasingly irrelevant today largely because the global capitalist system is perceived as increasingly salient.

To put it crudely, the global capitalist system has very little need of the subordinate classes in this sphere.

What is missing from Field's account is the connection between political transnational practices and the global capitalist system .

The gist of my argument is that the global capitalist system leaves less and less space for exclusively national capitalist projects.

venture

Is it backed by sophisticated venture capitalists ?

With backing from San Diego venture capitalists Kingsbury Associates, the company began researching its camera.

My guess would be he would take the first flight to Helsinki and listen to the venture capitalists there.

Training programs are turning hightech, and venture capitalists are staking millions on the new approach.

Formal venture capitalists are also likely to want loan capital or preference shares; they may want these to be convertible.

Those deals are generally too small to attract much enthusiasm from venture capitalists .

When he talked about starting a company, we discussed this with several venture capitalists to see what the usual arrangement was.

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the capitalists of the West

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But venture capitalists are swooping in like vultures.

First, if partially successful, it will lead to a big profits boom for the capitalists.

In other words, capitalists must prosper if there is to be progress and landlords can not help reaping its fruits.

Is it backed by sophisticated venture capitalists?

The capitalist can give them nothing that they need.

The difference between the two is the surplus value which the capitalist can extract from the workers.

The relationship between capitalist and wage labourer is defined as an equal exchange.

II. adjective

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■ NOUN

class

There, the capitalist class had the larger savings propensity, and a transfer to wage-earners reduced the rate of accumulation.

The state must appear class-neutral, the better to preserve the long-run interests of the capitalist class .

Capital is privately owned by a minority, the capitalist class .

Many criminal actions appear to offer little threat to the capitalist class system.

Such top managers should be regarded as part of the capitalist class since their position is qualitatively different from other employees.

For instance, the various ownership rights of the capitalist class will be enshrined in and protected by the laws of the land.

Marxist analyses of the social structure suggest that the political system is dominated by representatives of the bourgeoisie, the capitalist class .

Instrumentalists regard administrative elites as simply functionaries who make policy according to the rational interests of the capitalist class .

country

In a capitalist country , political dictatorship is not incompatible with economic modernisation and can even facilitate it.

Socialist victory in the advanced capitalist countries constitutes the only certain guarantee of enduring peace.

Akayev was widely seen as a democrat and as eager to develop contacts with capitalist countries .

But we must also take note of its growing importance in the advanced capitalist countries and the workers states.

It has revealed a social nature somewhat different from that of the traditional peasantry of the advanced capitalist countries .

Such a seemingly paradoxical phenomenon is well known in capitalist countries .

development

The degree of capitalist development implied the momentum of a bourgeois revolution.

Unfortunately the maquila project also demonstrates that rarely could or did the government actually reorient the conditions of capitalist development .

What then was qualitatively different about the imperialist epoch, as compared to the previous era of capitalist development ?

The Queretaro maquila project may actually be the model for capitalist development in the region.

Second, the contradictions inherent in the demands made on the state were likely to intensify as capitalist development proceeded.

economy

World-system theories emphasize the international character of the capitalist economy .

What are the prospects ahead for the world capitalist economy ?

It was, of course, presiding over a capitalist economy .

Marxism was not primarily a scientific method designed to uncover the mechanisms of the capitalist economy .

The era of free competition in the capitalist economy is over in all areas and in all respects.

And yet his motives were not unique; in a capitalist economy everybody is out to get money.

The most distinctive institution of capitalist economies is the privately owned corporation.

Class grew out of industrialization and the development of a capitalist economy .

enterprise

Liberal-democracy is found only in countries whose economic system is wholly or predominantly that of capitalist enterprise .

market

Law mirrors the abstract individuality and formal equality of contracting parties in the capitalist market .

This theology slipped over the iron hand of the capitalist market like a silk glove.

mode

The capitalist mode of production, for example, developed in Britain prior to industrialisation.

As we have seen in the case of Mormonism, a dialectical relationship exists between the Asiatic and the capitalist modes .

Thus the capitalist mode articulates with the peasant mode, with the latter playing a subordinate role and the former benefiting.

In the capitalist mode of production, however, the workers are landless and have no independent means of subsistence.

First, the state must meet the ever-increasing requirements for effective demand generated by the capitalist mode of production.

The only ultimately effective way the worker can resist is through collective class action to overthrow the capitalist mode of production.

In this lay the historical peculiarity of the capitalist mode of production.

The superiority of the capitalist mode of production led to a rapid transformation of the structure of society.

production

But Bukharin pointed out: Usually, the anarchy of capitalist production is seen in the light of market competition and of that alone.

They therefore had a monopoly on technological advances and the dynamics of capitalist production .

Massey provides us with a fascinating and persuasive account of how capitalist production has used space.

For Marxists, too, as an area becomes developed it can acquire characteristics which make it less attractive to capitalist production .

Neo-Marxists emphasize the globalization of capitalist production and the associated creation of a global division of labour.

Such crises do not have an accidental character, they are a part of the very process of capitalist production and reproduction.

society

For instance, in capitalist society , managers, administrators and professionals receive relatively high salaries because of the demand for their services.

He argues that capitalist societies remain polarized between two main classes: the ruling class and the working class.

Thus wealth in capitalist society is produced by the labour power of the workers.

In capitalist society , the forces of production include the collective production of goods by large numbers of workers in factories.

Essentially, he argues that capitalist societies are prone to periodic fluctuations in profitability.

Such views are not limited to capitalist societies , or to countries in the developed world.

Hence, class conflict is viewed as inevitable and indeed as the only major source of conflict in capitalist society .

Most importantly they see the social structure of capitalist societies as being based not upon conflict but upon shared values.

state

Poulantzas' explanation gives a key role to the relation between the capitalist state and capitalist ideology.

Through mounting intervention to sustain a profitable economy, capitalist states are haphazardly establishing a wholly new arena of political confrontation.

What is needed is an organisation which is strong enough to combat and overthrow the capitalist state .

In short, capitalist states were becoming thoroughly entangled in a set of conflicts from which they could not easily extricate themselves.

Poulantzas therefore develops his theory by elaborating his conception of the capitalist state and tracing its connection with the class struggle.

In normal circumstances the capitalist state can successfully conceal its class character.

The capitalist state has to perform two essential but often contradictory functions.

Just remember that as the State withers away, so will the many evils which accompany the capitalist state.

system

The state is called on to perform a number of functions necessary for the smooth development of the capitalist system .

This was one more bit of debris from the capitalist system , from feudalism, from the Dark Ages.

We are against the global capitalist system , with its logic of competition and profit.

The most elusive culprit remains the built-in contradictions of the capitalist system .

It only occurs as a result of the incorporation of these societies into capitalist systems .

The predominance of the United States in the world capitalist system received fresh confirmation.

The traditional capitalist system has worked very well to increase local, national and global wealth for many years.

The energy crisis is but a single example of what is happening to the world capitalist system .

west

He was an agent, not of the capitalist West , but of the spirit of human freedom.

Silently, desperately, it is struggling against a new and all-powerful adversary, the civilization of the capitalist West .

There will be little room, however, for more daring creations from the now reviled capitalist West .

world

He took as his starting point the capitalist world economy: Contemporary capitalism is world capitalism.

If socialists are right to perceive losses as a virtue, there are a lot of holy people in the capitalist world .

These measures, introduced quite suddenly, led to considerable economic problems in the capitalist world .

Their lives lay with the capitalist world he had hated so bitterly in his own youth.

For example, in most work situations in our capitalist world the employer gives money in exchange for the employee's labour.

It represented the prototype of the transformation for which the whole of the capitalist world is destined.

The capitalist world drummed its fingers in anticipation of the revolution's demise.

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the seven richest capitalist countries

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Capital is privately owned by a minority, the capitalist class.

In these ways, argues Marx, capitalist manufacturing exploits workers' labour-power and craft skills.

Members of capitalist systems tend to take such discrimination for granted but the logic of the exercise is far from obvious.

More limited forms of resistance such as normal trade union activity do not alter the fundamental relationships of class inequality in capitalist society.

Skepticism is part and parcel of the capitalist ideology.

The degree of capitalist development implied the momentum of a bourgeois revolution.

This refers to the professionals and white-collar workers whose earnings are linked to their skills and qualifications rather than capitalist ventures.

What happened in the 1970s was capitalist greed.

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