anticapitalism
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a word derived from
capitalism.
capitalismnounan 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.
Example Sentences
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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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