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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

Ruskin’s essay “Unto This Last,” with its egalitarian, anticapitalist underpinnings, was a particular inspiration.

From New York Times ● May 15, 2024

The business operates on an anticapitalist model, said Boyd.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2022

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

Yet he was probably the more fierce Venturist and anticapitalist of the two.

From Marcella by Mrs. Humphry Ward

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