13 sentences with 'capitalism'
Example sentences and phrases with the word capitalism and other words derived from it.
• « American capitalism - buoyant on the crest of a completely different revolution: the technological revolution - is indeed advancing into a new era. »
• « The rise of that class to prominence in certain societies, especially those of the Netherlands and England, accompanied the birth of the most clearly modern form of economy: capitalism. »
• « In short, we see in the 17th and 18th centuries the first phase of a system that would later be called capitalism: an economic system in which the exchange of commodities for profit generated wealth that was reinvested in the name of even greater profits. »
• « In turn, capitalism depends on governments enforcing legal systems that protect property and, historically, on wars that sought to wrest larger chunks of the world market from its rivals. »
• « Socialism was a specific historical phenomenon born of two related factors: first, the ideological break with the society of orders that occurred with the French Revolution, and second, the growth of industrial capitalism. »
• « At the same time, the people who owned property, "the bourgeoisie", came under pressure. In the climate of the new capitalism, of unregulated markets and fierce competition, it was terribly easy to fall behind and go out of business. Therefore, the former members of the bourgeoisie lost out and became proletarians themselves. »
• « Subsequently, as he devoted himself to the analysis of the inherent characteristics of capitalism rather than to revolutionary propaganda, Marx became more circumspect. With astonishing erudition, he tried to make sense of an economic system that somehow repeatedly destroyed itself and yet grew stronger, faster and more violent with each economic cycle. »
• « The leaders of the Social Democratic Party of Germany claimed that Marx had been right in all his major analyses, that capitalism would inevitably collapse, and that the party's primary objective was therefore to prepare the working class to rise up and take over in the midst of the coming crisis. »
• « This practical division between socialism as social welfare and socialism as a revolutionary rejection of capitalism was to have serious consequences for the next hundred years of world history. »
• « The socialist attitude towards feminism, incidentally, was that gender divisions were by-products of capitalism: once capitalism was eliminated, gender inequality would supposedly disappear as well. »
• « Officially, Italian fascism promised to end the class conflict that lay at the heart of socialist ideology by favouring what it called "corporatism" over mere capitalism. Corporatism was supposed to be a unified system of decision-making in which workers and business owners would serve in joint committees to control labour. In fact, the owners got all the benefits; trade unions were banned and the workers' situation degenerated without representation. »
• « Jews had invented communism, capitalism, pacifism, liberalism, democracy - everything that supposedly weakened Germany from Hitler's perspective. »
• « At times, independence movements such as those in India and Ghana managed to avoid being caught up in the Cold War. At other times, however, countries like Vietnam became battlegrounds where the conflict between capitalism and communism erupted in massive bloodshed. »