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anticapitalism

  • a word derived from capitalism.
    capitalism
    noun
    an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations, especially as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth.

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To that end, both within and beyond the movement known as Liberation Theology, many Latin Catholics promote visions of solidarity, inclusion, anticolonialism and anticapitalism to increase the church’s appeal across Latin America.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 20, 2026

An aesthetic impulse, it sent antibodies into what was left of a ruined 19th-century moral system, and gave those antibodies names: antiwar, anti-empire, anticapitalism, anti-authority, anti-logic, antinormality.

From New York Times Jul. 8, 2016

This populism moves beyond the old working class anticapitalism; it tries to bring together a multiplicity of struggles from ecology to feminism, from the right to employment to free education and healthcare.

From The Guardian Jun. 4, 2016

The resultant drop in foreign earnings is in part responsible for the anticapitalism moves.

From Time Magazine Archive

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