10 sentences with 'capitalist'
Example sentences and phrases with the word capitalist and other words derived from it.
• « The development of early capitalism was intimately related to overseas expansion - Europe was an important node of a truly global economy in the seventeenth century, and it was that economy that drove the development of capitalist and trading societies in places like the Netherlands and England. »
• « In capitalist economies this phenomenon often leads to "bubbles" of rising values that then collapse. »
• « The nobility showed their cunning in reorganising agriculture along more capitalist lines and, in turn, their hunger for land led to "enclosure" laws, especially in Britain. The result was continued, sometimes debilitating, pressure on the peasants. »
• « Exiled to Britain after the failure of the 1848 revolutions, Marx devoted himself to a detailed analysis of the endogenous tendencies of the capitalist economy, eventually producing three massive volumes entitled, simply, Capital. »
• « In fact, Marx rarely wrote about the revolution after 1850; his great work Capital is, instead, a vast and incredibly detailed study of how the capitalist economy of England worked and what it did to the people "inside" it. »
• « For his part, Stalin did not think Hitler would be foolish enough to try to invade the Soviet Union, especially before Germany had actually "won" in the West. In 1939, Stalin informed his advisers that "The war will be fought between two groups of capitalist states... we have nothing against it if they beat and weaken each other. It would be no bad thing if Germany were to take out the richer capitalist countries (particularly England)". »
• « Non-aligned countries, such as India, tended to sympathise with the "Soviet bloc" (i.e. countries allied with or under the control of the USSR) as much as with the United States and the other major capitalist countries. »
• « Even in the capitalist countries of the West, intellectuals, students and workers were often sympathetic to communism as well, despite the apparent mismatch between the utopian promise of Marxism and the reality of a police state in the USSR. »
• « This global division between communist and capitalist was only possible because of the vast might of the USSR. The threat of world war terrified every sane person on the planet, but beyond that, the threat of conventional military intervention by the Soviets was almost as threatening. »
• « Left thinkers came to reject both the obvious injustices of Soviet-style communism and the injustices of their own capitalist societies. »