Wondering how to use Capitalism in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as socialism.
Capitalism meaning
- A socio-economic system based on private ownership of resources or capital.
- An economic system based on private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.
- A socio-economic system based on private property rights, including the private ownership of resources or capital, with economic decisions made largely through the operation of a market unregulated by the state.
Synonyms of Capitalism
Using Capitalism
- The main meaning on this page is: A socio-economic system based on private ownership of resources or capital. | An economic system based on private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. | A socio-economic system based on private property rights, including the private ownership of resources or capital, with economic decisions made largely through the operation of a market unregulated by the state.
- Useful related words include: capitalist economy, market economy, free enterprise, private enterprise.
- In the example corpus, capitalism often appears in combinations such as: of capitalism, capitalism and, capitalism is.
Context around Capitalism
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 10 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Capitalism
- In this selection, "capitalism" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, modern, market, crony, open, saying and advanced stand out and add context to how "capitalism" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a new capitalism a more and alternatives to capitalism have lost. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "capitalism" sits close to words such as infinite, fraction and infamous, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with capitalism
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
That is not capitalism but crony capitalism. (7 words)
They are the essence of capitalism (yes, capitalism is a bad deal). (12 words)
Just because you suck at capitalism doesn’t mean it’s bad, yes capitalism is not perfect but it’s better than socialism. (23 words)
It’s time for a new capitalism — a more fair, equal and sustainable capitalism that actually works for everyone and where businesses, including tech companies, don’t just take from society but truly give back and have a positive impact. (40 words)
Thinking of government in this way opens us up to a profound rethinking of policymaking, one that is both less radical than democratic socialism — because it embraces capitalism — and more radical, because it seeks to transform capitalism from its roots. (40 words)
The major forms of capitalism are listed hereafter: Advanced capitalism Advanced capitalism is the situation that pertains to a society in which the capitalist model has been integrated and developed deeply and extensively for a prolonged period. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Going through history, we can now tell there are three types of economic development: open-market capitalism, open-market capitalism with more social welfare, and Crony Capitalism.
And so to fight against capitalism is a pointless task, since be it State capitalism or Enterprise capitalism, as long as Government exists, exploiting capital will exist.
Hitler stated that the Nazi Party supported bodenständigen Kapitalismus (productive capitalism) that was based upon profit earned from one's own labour, but condemned unproductive capitalism or loan capitalism, which derived profit from speculation.
Natural Capitalism is a critique of traditional "Industrial Capitalism", saying that the traditional system of capitalism "does not fully conform to its own accounting principles.
The major forms of capitalism are listed hereafter: Advanced capitalism Advanced capitalism is the situation that pertains to a society in which the capitalist model has been integrated and developed deeply and extensively for a prolonged period.
They are the essence of capitalism (yes, capitalism is a bad deal).
Yes, there are some industries where there isn't effective competition etc etc. But overall capitalism ensures that inventions are applied to production and the benefits shared around far far better than any state capitalism system.
That is not capitalism but crony capitalism.
Commercial capitalism, beginning in the seventeenth century, was the first stage, progressively turning into industrial capitalism (the second stage), which became more and more relevant in the nineteenth century.
It might be instructive for economists and policymakers to reevaluate the functioning of modern capitalism to a broader form of capitalism that works for the majority of the population, as hedge fund investor Ray Dalio pointed out.
A common myth about capitalism — and its associated ideology, (classical) liberalism — is that capitalism and liberalism somehow “force” people to prefer consumption and profit maximization above all other value systems.
In a world in which old imagined “alternatives to capitalism” have lost their lustre, it is these incremental steps that will counter the excesses of the current dominant form of hyper-competitive, wealth-concentrating shareholder capitalism.
In terms of the twentieth-century tension between socialism and capitalism, people may be inclined to favor socialism because they have a mistaken perception of capitalism.
It’s time for a new capitalism — a more fair, equal and sustainable capitalism that actually works for everyone and where businesses, including tech companies, don’t just take from society but truly give back and have a positive impact.
Just because you suck at capitalism doesn’t mean it’s bad, yes capitalism is not perfect but it’s better than socialism.
The rampant capitalism of the last two decades has proven itself a hollow shell, not because the type of "statist" policies which Trudeau would have embraced is better, but because modern capitalism is built on selfishness.
Thinking of government in this way opens us up to a profound rethinking of policymaking, one that is both less radical than democratic socialism — because it embraces capitalism — and more radical, because it seeks to transform capitalism from its roots.
However, the main idea that I have tried to bring forth is that socialism can work, sometimes and in small doses, but not to take the place of capitalism but to make capitalism work better.
It is also a reminder that late-modern capitalism can embrace and even promote radical, chic rhetoric as long as it does not call into question the ideology of capitalism itself.
It's a total deconstruction of capitalism, and it talks about the dehumanization of late capitalism on the individual, and that there are no real emotions left.
Common combinations with capitalism
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of capitalism 50×
- capitalism and 28×
- capitalism is 20×
- and capitalism 8×
- capitalism that 7×
- crony capitalism 6×
- state capitalism 6×
- under capitalism 6×
- capitalism has 6×
- capitalism as 5×