Meaning of capitalist in English
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Noun
capitalistDefinitions
1. a conservative advocate of capitalism- 2. a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business)
Qualitative Adjective
capitalistDefinitions
1. of or relating to capitalism or capitalistsExamples
- « a capitalist nation »
- « capitalistic methods and incentives »
- 2. favoring or practicing capitalism
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Famous quotes
- « Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. » Vladimir Lenin
- « The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society. » Clara Zetkin
- « Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer. » Karl Marx
- « The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave. » James Connolly
- « We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization. » Herbert Read