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Capitalistic   Listen
adjective
capitalistic  adj.  
1.
Of or relating to capitalism or capitalists. "Capitalistic methods and incentives"
Synonyms: capitalist.
2.
Favoring or practicing capitalism. (Narrower terms: bourgeois). Antonym: socialistic.
Synonyms: capitalist.






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"Capitalistic" Quotes from Famous Books



... everyone who wished for it, and that without interest, on condition that it was reimbursed out of the proceeds of production within a period the length of which was to be determined by the nature of the proposed investment. As the instruments of labour and the other capitalistic aids to labour could be provided to any amount and of any quality, one part of the problem ...
— Freeland - A Social Anticipation • Theodor Hertzka

... there is still a general feeling here towards "England" exactly the opposite of what these restrictions are intended to create—a bitterness and a contempt which exist side by side with the most violent criticism of the governing clique of Germany, and with anti-capitalistic, revolutionary sentiment! So I am exerting myself to make people realise that, however influential, the Northcliffe and Allied Press is not "England," and that the best German papers constantly work for the abatement of hatred and for genuine ...
— The Better Germany in War Time - Being some Facts towards Fellowship • Harold Picton

... exactly the same monopolistic schemes, in which they have exactly the same ends in view as have the monopolists who combine millions of dollars' worth of capital to effect their purposes. On the one hand we have the Standard Oil Trust and the Railroad pools and the hundreds of other capitalistic combinations striving to benefit the producer at the expense of the consumer; while among those whose only capital is their strength and skill, we find the workers in all the various trades, and even some of the lower grades of laborers firmly banded together with the avowed ...
— Monopolies and the People • Charles Whiting Baker

... writing a serial, had showed him some of my verse, and he must hasten to encourage me ... I puzzled long over the writer's signature.... It could not be possible! but it seemed to be inscribed with the name of a novelist famous for his investigations of capitalistic abuses of the people ... the author of the sensational novel, The Slaughter House, which was said ...
— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp

... and economic theory. The modern world of industry has been built up by the enterprise of capitalists working upon the basis of unrestricted competition. Joint-stock companies and "trusts" are simply capitalistic combinations for the exploitation of industrial opportunities upon a ...
— Religious Reality • A.E.J. Rawlinson

... burning issues. I would most earnestly appeal to thoughtful citizens in this as in my own country to pause before heaping fuel on these fires. For the policy of national self-sufficiency or isolation means nothing less than this. Not merely does it strengthen the power of capitalistic combinations and thereby incite labor unions to direct action, blackmailing demands, and sabotage. Not merely does it let loose upon the business world all sorts of ill-considered governmental interferences for the fixation of prices or subsidies to consumers. ...
— Morals of Economic Internationalism • John A. Hobson

... off the top of his mind, the rest of it obviously engaged with the note,—"you tell Sarah there's nothing capitalistic about this. This is from her Doctor Wollaston's wife. Certainly he earns ...
— Mary Wollaston • Henry Kitchell Webster



Words linked to "Capitalistic" :   free-enterprise, laissez-faire, bourgeois, capitalism, private-enterprise, socialistic



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