capitalism

Capitalism was adjudged by the sociologists of the time to be the culmination of bourgeois rule, the ripened fruit of the bourgeois revolution.

It was a monster devouring with a thousand mouths, trampling with a thousand hoofs; it was the Great Butcher--it was the spirit of Capitalism made flesh.

Capitalism, organized for repressive purposes under pretext of governing the nation, would very soon stop the association if it understood our aim, but it thinks that we are engaged in gunpowder plots and conspiracies to assassinate crowned heads; and so, whilst the police are blundering in search of evidence of these, our real work goes on unmolested.

All the past corruption and cowardice is hampering us, of course; the West country is pretty stormy and doubtful even in a military sense; and the Irish regiments there, that are supposed to support us by the new treaty, are pretty well in mutiny; for, of course, this infernal coolie capitalism is being pushed in Ireland, too.

Disillusioned with the consequences of this economic model founded on what since early 1980s has been known to be no-holds-barred capitalism and underpinned by unregulated free market economy, a select group of economists is seeking ways to reshape it into 'decent' capitalism.

The Making of Capitalism in France: Class Structures, Economic Development, the State and the Formation of the French Working Class, 1750-1914

CONFUCIAN CAPITALISM: SHIBUSAWA EIICHI, BUSINESS ETHICS, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN MEIJI JAPAN JOHN H.

The Conde Nast site 7een Vogue considers itself on the frontlines of the fight against capitalism. An April article, "What 'Capitalism' Is and How It Affects People," compares the capitalist system, which it insists is leading the world toward a "dystopian Mad Max nightmare in which resources have dwindled [and] rich plutocrats own everything," to supposedly more desirable socialism.

Political-economic systems are identified by broad abstractions such as "capitalism," "socialism," "communism," "fascism." Philosophy and history enable us to identify, in broad abstractions, the essence of political economic systems.

Synopsis: The United States has long epitomized capitalism. From its enterprising shopkeepers, wildcat banks, violent slave plantations, huge industrial working class, and raucous commodities trade to its world-spanning multinationals, its massive factories, and the centripetal power of New York in the world of finance, America has come to symbolize capitalism for two centuries and more.