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anticapitalist

British  
/ ˌæntɪˈkæpɪtəlɪst /

adjective

  1. opposed to or against the principles or practice of capitalism

    anticapitalist riots

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. someone opposed to or against capitalism

    a group of anticapitalists

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Zero, Santi’s new friend and life guru played by Lilli Kay, is a self-described “genderqueer, anticapitalist, postcolonial feminist,” and the series manages to have fun with her without making fun of her.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2025

Malm noted the explicitly anticapitalist themes in the enormously popular Netflix series “Squid Game.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2023

The brooding masculine showdown between father and son, however, is its greatest claim to that label, with the intergenerational rift also complicating the film’s anticapitalist stance.

From New York Times • May 19, 2022

Part backward looking and part revision and update for the constantly moving present, it embodies and thickens Kruger’s refracting of the language of advertising and propaganda through an anticapitalist, humanist lens.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2021

The antislavery movement had one Uncle Tom's Cabin; the anticapitalist movement had many.

From Equality by Bellamy, Edward

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