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  • After almost a year back home in America, he has become even more enraged by what he perceives as the injustice of the capitalist system.   (source)
    capitalist = one who believes in an economic system based on voluntary exchange in a competitive environment with private ownership of property and businesses
  • You considered the only unseen forces to be those of capitalism and the love of Jesus Christ.   (source)
    capitalism = an economic system based on voluntary exchange in a competitive environment with private ownership of property and businesses
  • Whatever it was called-feudalism and serfdom or capitalism and industrial workers, it was unnatural and unjust.   (source)
  • The centuries of capitalism were held to have produced nothing of any value.   (source)
    capitalism = an economic system based on private ownership of property and businesses, and on voluntary exchange in a competitive environment
  • I have forgotten their names — Jaqueline, I think, or else Consuela, or Gloria or Judy or June, and their last names were either the melodious names of flowers and months or the sterner ones of the great American capitalists whose cousins, if pressed, they would confess themselves to be.   (source)
    capitalists = people who are wealthy and clearly benefit from an economic system based on private ownership of property and businesses
  • My father was very impressed by Faiz Mohammad and thought he talked a lot of sense, particularly about wanting to end the feudal and capitalist systems in our country, where the same big families had controlled things for years while the poor got poorer.†   (source)
  • "Capitalist's Daughter Aids Bolshevik Murderer?" he said.†   (source)
  • They are a luxury plaything of the capitalist West.†   (source)
  • In other words, they provided an unflinching portrayal of Capitalism as it actually was.†   (source)
  • Capitalism would inch forward, without my actually having to interact face-to-face with another human being.†   (source)
  • He said, "Unrestrained capitalism always ends in war.†   (source)
  • I hate Monopoly, but even a capitalist board game was welcome— relief from the more strenuous activities my cousins subjected me to and Hester was either in a rare mood to be calm, or else I rarely saw her without the company of Noah and Simon, around whom it was impossible to remain calm.†   (source)
  • Class ends in a debate between the animal-rights activists, who say it is immoral to own fish, and the red-blooded capitalists, who know lots of better ways to make money than investing in fish that eat their young.†   (source)
  • All I could make out were a few words from the titles of the posters: "Propagating Feudal, Capitalistic, and Revisionist Ideals"; "Poisoning our Youth."†   (source)
  • Baruch Blumberg, the Nobel Prize-winning researcher who used Ted Slavin's antibodies for hepatitis B research, told me, "Whether you think the commercialization of medical research is good or bad depends on how into capitalism you are."†   (source)
  • I don't believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists.†   (source)
  • Socialism and capitalism are economic systems.†   (source)
  • He was still at risk of winding up a cliche of free market capitalism: the inventor whose brainchild would lead to profit for others and nothing for himself.†   (source)
  • His clashes between Gerald and Gudrun, for instance, have as much to do with deficiencies in the capitalist social system and modern values as with personality shortcomings of the participants.†   (source)
  • To the lower left of Ty was Tom Stenton, the world-striding CEO and self-described Capitalist Prime—he loved the Transformers—wearing an Italian suit and grinning like the wolf that ate Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother.†   (source)
  • All that time, plotting and making war, building up their capitalist empire, waiting for this moment when you are mortal, when the Oracles are vulnerable for a hostile takeover.†   (source)
  • In many respects, the fast food industry embodies the best and the worst of American capitalism at the start of the twenty-first century — its constant stream of new products and innovations, its widening gulf between rich and poor.†   (source)
  • It was a capitalist transaction.†   (source)
  • Comprador capitalist Spring-thunder.†   (source)
  • On the one hand, they ally themselves with the ruling classes in capital and industry and maintain the capitalist principle, on the other they preach socialism.†   (source)
  • He was forever reading books about corporate management, looking for tips from capitalists.†   (source)
  • Democracy was going to be introduced, the threat of nuclear war was over, and the Bolsheviks would turn into regular little capitalists overnight.†   (source)
  • Let's be honest and give this man his due instead of secretly criticizing his capitalistic talent.†   (source)
  • When he published The Theory of Moral Sentiments in 1759, modern capitalism was just getting under way.†   (source)
  • I'd never seen such stark poverty as what was on display in Jakarta, or such naked capitalism at work in the enormous factories and the Texas drawls coming from across the hotel lobby where the oil company executives were drinking.†   (source)
  • "Male" and "Capitalist" go together in our minds a lot like "John" and "Male" did.†   (source)
  • And we could solve this by having capitalist luxuries?†   (source)
  • Capitalism created new markets for rice and potatoes, but also for female flesh.†   (source)
  • If anyone looked up, he would be regarded as arrogant or too stubborn to change and too deeply influenced by capitalist filth.†   (source)
  • Kolya's one of those Russian conglomerates taken over by a new branch of black-market capitalists.†   (source)
  • There's no point in trading one capitalist for another.†   (source)
  • Quite late in his life my father became what he had been in Russia, a highly successful merchant, a capitalist.†   (source)
  • It may not …. be amiss to hint that the central situation of this country, her extensive navigation, her possessions in the East and West Indies, the intelligence of her merchants, the number of her capitalists, and the riches of her funds, render a connection with her very desirable to America; and, on the other hand, the abundance and variety of the productions of America, the materials of manufacturers, navigation, and commerce, the vast demand and consumption in America of the…†   (source)
  • From things Rosie said over the years, vague references, I think you're looking at a singularity in a capitalist world—a company that can't fail."†   (source)
  • It would have called greater attention to the traumatic displacement this most wasteful capitalist war had on black people, and thrown into relief their desperate and desperately creative strategies of survival.†   (source)
  • Now the planners are asking their people not to blame the government, but to blame the depravity of the rich, because I turned out to be an irresponsible playboy, instead of the greedy capitalist I was expected to be.†   (source)
  • They hated Italy, the military, the government, capitalism, horses, swords, and encyclopedias.†   (source)
  • Their plans, they said, were to put the inmates to work in a public/private enterprise, a slick mixture of capitalism and communism.†   (source)
  • Everyone knew that anyone even thinking of the army was a capitalist pig warmonger, at least.†   (source)
  • Earth still possessed democracies, monarchies, benevolent dictatorships, communism and capitalism.†   (source)
  • Sure he was against industrial capitalism.†   (source)
  • Ever since your great-grandfather came back half-blind and mutilated from the Civil War and together with my father tried to set up a humble trade manufacturing snuff and chewing tobacco down in Beaufort County—only to have their dreams shattered when they were forced out of business by those piratical devils, Washington Duke and his son, "Buck" Duke—ever since my knowledge of that tragedy I have had an undying hatred for the vicious monopoly capitalism that tramples the little man.†   (source)
  • A country lawyer in Tidewater Virginia, he mixed religious piety unhealthily with capitalistic ambition.†   (source)
  • These same capitalists hired the gravelly voiced, production-conscious Piedmont to keep the occasional sparks of resentment extinguished.†   (source)
  • By ENEMY we mean the powers of imperialism, the multi-nationals and the puppet powers that be, the false gods, the capitalists, the priests and teachers who give false interpretations.†   (source)
  • "This is called Capitalism," he said.†   (source)
  • The capitalists let them starve.†   (source)
  • In 1900, the life expectancy in America was roughly fifty years. Rich people lived to the age of sixty, while poor people on average died at the age of forty-five….Today, life expectancy in America has climbed to seventy-eight years. The rich guy lives to the age of eighty, while the poor guy drops at the age of seventy-six….Technological capitalism has done more to raise the general standard of living...   (source)
  • The great capitalists devouring the little capitalists, concentrating the power and the tools of production in great masses...   (source)
  • ...the West also devised a new way of organizing society around the institutions of science, democracy, and capitalism. The Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the Scientific Revolution were some of the major signposts on Western civilization's road to modernity.   (source)
  • What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system.   (source)
  • Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.   (source)
  • The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.   (source)
  • Supporters of free markets often make the mistake of thinking of capitalism as something that exists in opposition to the state. When it is time to pay taxes, this view can be self-evident. But the reality is more complex. ... If one wanted to see what the absence of government produces, one need only look at Africa -- it is not a free-market paradise.   (source)
    capitalism = an economic system based on private ownership of property and businesses, and on voluntary exchange in a competitive environment
  • Conservatives support capitalism because it is a way of steering our natural pursuit of self-interest toward the material betterment of society at large.   (source)
  • This happened to a great extent during the final phase of capitalism, roughly between 1920 and 1940.   (source)
  • Every capitalist went about with a gang of lackeys who-   (source)
    capitalist = someone who is wealthy clearly and benefits from an economic system based on private ownership of property and businesses
  • The chief of all the capitalists was called the King.   (source)
    capitalists = people who are wealthy and clearly benefit from an economic system based on private ownership of property and businesses
  • This was the uniform of the capitalists, and no one else was allowed to wear it.   (source)
  • It had always been assumed that if the capitalist class were expropriated, Socialism must follow:   (source)
    capitalist = of people who are wealthy and clearly benefit from an economic system based on private ownership of property and businesses
  • ...and unquestionably the capitalists had been expropriated.   (source)
    capitalists = people who are wealthy and clearly benefit from an economic system based on private ownership of property and businesses
  • The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.   (source)
  • He and a few others like him were the last links that now existed with the vanished world of capitalism.   (source)
    capitalism = an economic system based on private ownership of property and businesses, and on voluntary exchange in a competitive environment
  • There is far less to-and-fro movement between the different groups than happened under capitalism or even in the pre-industrial age.   (source)
  • When any ordinary person spoke to a capitalist he had to cringe and bow to him, and take off his cap and address him as 'Sir'.   (source)
    capitalist = someone who is wealthy clearly and benefits from an economic system based on private ownership of property and businesses
  • It was the law by which every capitalist had the right to sleep with any woman working in one of his factories.   (source)
  • The point is, these capitalists — they and a few lawyers and priests and so forth who lived on them — were the lords of the earth.   (source)
    capitalists = people who are wealthy and clearly benefit from an economic system based on private ownership of property and businesses
  • These rich men were called capitalists.   (source)
  • Always they were a rehashing of the ancient themes — slum tenements, starving children, street battles, capitalists in top hats —   (source)
  • — even on the barricades the capitalists still seemed to cling to their top hats an endless, hopeless effort to get back into the past.   (source)
    capitalists = people who believe in an economic system based on voluntary exchange in a competitive environment with private ownership of property and businesses
  • And at the same time there were a very few people, only a few thousands — the capitalists, they were called — who were rich and powerful.   (source)
    capitalists = people who are wealthy and clearly benefit from an economic system based on private ownership of property and businesses
  • For all he knew there might never have been any such law as the jus primae noctis, or any such creature as a capitalist, or any such garment as a top hat.   (source)
    capitalist = someone who is wealthy clearly and benefits from an economic system based on private ownership of property and businesses
  • Before the Revolution they had been hideously oppressed by the capitalists, they had been starved and flogged, women had been forced to work in the coal mines (women still did work in the coal mines, as a matter of fact), children had been sold into the factories at the age of six.   (source)
    capitalists = people who are wealthy and clearly benefit from an economic system based on private ownership of property and businesses
  • His exploits had been gradually pushed backwards in time until already they extended into the fabulous world of the forties and the thirties, when the capitalists in their strange cylindrical hats still rode through the streets of London in great gleaming motor-cars or horse carriages with glass sides.   (source)
  • Whenever it rained, the rheumatism would get into his joints, and then he would screw up his face and mutter: "Capitalism, my boy, capitalism!"   (source)
    capitalism = an economic system based on private ownership of property and businesses, and on voluntary exchange in a competitive environment
  • It was a monster devouring with a thousand mouths, trampling with a thousand hoofs; it was the Great Butcher--it was the spirit of Capitalism made flesh.   (source)
  • That was the nearest approach to independence a man could make "under capitalism," he explained; he would never marry, for no sane man would allow himself to fall in love until after the revolution.   (source)
  • The Lord had used up so much material in the making of his head that there had not been enough to complete his legs; but he got about on the platform, and when he shook his raven whiskers the pillars of capitalism rocked.   (source)
  • --To go on to another item--one of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption; and one of the consequences of civic administration by ignorant and vicious politicians, is that preventable diseases kill off half our population.   (source)
  • The working-man was to fix his hopes upon a future life, while his pockets were picked in this one; he was brought up to frugality, humility, obedience--in short to all the pseudo-virtues of capitalism.   (source)
  • It was enough to make a mule laugh, to hear arguments like that; and yet it was no laughing matter, as you found out--for how many millions of such poor deluded wretches there were, whose lives had been so stunted by capitalism that they no longer knew what freedom was!   (source)
  • "Just what," answered the other, "would be the productive capacity of society if the present resources of science were utilized, we have no means of ascertaining; but we may be sure it would exceed anything that would sound reasonable to minds inured to the ferocious barbarities of capitalism."   (source)
  • There was a tremendous scandal, of course; it was found that the city records had been falsified and other crimes committed, and some of Chicago's big capitalists got into jail--figuratively speaking.   (source)
    capitalists = people who believe in an economic system based on private ownership of property and businesses with voluntary exchange in a competitive environment; or wealthy people who benefit from such an economy
  • And so all over the world two classes were forming, with an unbridged chasm between them--the capitalist class, with its enormous fortunes, and the proletariat, bound into slavery by unseen chains.   (source)
    capitalist = one who believes in an economic system based on private ownership of property and businesses with voluntary exchange in a competitive environment; or someone who is wealthy and benefits from such an economy
  • Marija was really the capitalist of the party, for she had become an expert can painter by this time--she was getting fourteen cents for every hundred and ten cans, and she could paint more than two cans every minute.   (source)
  • The whole balance of what the people produced went to heap up the fortunes of these capitalists, to heap, and heap again, and yet again--and that in spite of the fact that they, and every one about them, lived in unthinkable luxury!   (source)
    capitalists = people who believe in an economic system based on private ownership of property and businesses with voluntary exchange in a competitive environment; or wealthy people who benefit from such an economy
  • "When one comes to the ultra-modern profession of advertising," responded Schliemann--"the science of persuading people to buy what they do not want--he is in the very center of the ghastly charnel house of capitalist destructiveness, and he scarcely knows which of a dozen horrors to point out first."   (source)
    capitalist = one who believes in an economic system based on private ownership of property and businesses with voluntary exchange in a competitive environment; or someone who is wealthy and benefits from such an economy
  • On the other hand, if wage slavery were abolished, and I could earn some spare money without paying tribute to an exploiting capitalist, then there would be a magazine for the purpose of interpreting and popularizing the gospel of Friedrich Nietzsche, the prophet of Evolution, and also of Horace Fletcher, the inventor of the noble science of clean eating; and incidentally, perhaps, for the discouraging of long skirts, and the scientific breeding of men and women, and the establishing…   (source)
  • Mike Scully was very much worried over the opportunity which his last deal gave to them--the stockyards Democrats were furious at the idea of a rich capitalist for their candidate, and while they were changing they might possibly conclude that a Socialist firebrand was preferable to a Republican bum.   (source)
  • Capitalists, commies, and Jesus Christers are paying.†   (source)
  • It was in his view the supreme achievement of American capitalism, as well as its greatest disgrace.†   (source)
  • "I didn't know that capitalists were so anxious to get involved in charity."†   (source)
  • Though the capitalist Rong De-feng has died, his widow still lives on his ill-gotten gains.†   (source)
  • But paired with ruthless capitalistic ambition—†   (source)
  • "This is a capitalist society," says Wayne Grody "People like Ted Slavin took advantage of that.†   (source)
  • "Believe me, it was a capitalist's wet dream.†   (source)
  • "Typical capitalist," said a ragged-looking old woman.†   (source)
  • Every capitalist wanted to jump on the bandwagon and help build the new Europe.†   (source)
  • Ironically, he was a black whelp, the son of a former capitalist.†   (source)
  • Around his neck was a heavy wooden sign: CAPITALIST EXECUTIONER SHAN YI-DAN.†   (source)
  • Her husband had been a wealthy man, a capitalist.†   (source)
  • Now he was suspended and under investigation for being a capitalist follower.†   (source)
  • He probably thinks I'm holding him to American standards of capitalist materialism!†   (source)
  • Whatever that was, it couldn't be any worse than the capitalist pig warmongers who ran this country.†   (source)
  • As you yourself pointed out, capitalism is what matters here.†   (source)
  • Kill people, spare property I watch Brian sleep. ibu have your own capitalist tools now.†   (source)
  • How could eighteen years of communism be so easily influenced by six short weeks of capitalism?†   (source)
  • Like much of the continent, we were taken in by ruthless capitalist privateers.†   (source)
  • Capitalism, it turns out, can achieve what charity and good intentions sometimes cannot.†   (source)
  • The pursuit of material things, that capitalist tumor, began to take on a different meaning.†   (source)
  • In a hundred years you may be the socialists, and with luck, we'll be the capitalists, da?†   (source)
  • Ben jokingly remarked to other people, "Communists make the best capitalists."†   (source)
  • Thank God for capitalists, no matter how misguided.†   (source)
  • Chapter 18 — THE FILTHY CAPITALIST AMERICA.†   (source)
  • Resist capitalist influences and make sure you exercise your communist judgment.†   (source)
  • So I made up some bad things about "rotten capitalist influences."†   (source)
  • Giselle, for example, was clearly a story from a rotten capitalist society.†   (source)
  • "You can tell this ballet was designed by a capitalist," our political head said.†   (source)
  • The officials are worried about capitalist influences.†   (source)
  • "But that sounds," objected Metzger, "like he was against industrial capitalism.†   (source)
  • It was the fault of America, of Capitalism, of White Anglo-Saxon Protestantism.†   (source)
  • And there, my capitalist friend, is where the Blacks come in.†   (source)
  • Then he was murdered, and the CIA replaced him with Mobutu, a capitalist who believes in dictatorship.†   (source)
  • She said she had come on her own hook, out of love, because although a capitalist he'd always been a decent man, but now she found he'd turned into a heartless plutocrat.†   (source)
  • To develop a revolutionary science, we must overthrow the black banner of capitalism represented by the theory of relativity!†   (source)
  • An assassination attempt has been made on Hitler's life, and for once not by Jewish Communists or English capitalists, but by a German general who's not only a count, but young as well.†   (source)
  • I doubt that Owen ever would have become "sophisticated" enough to make that separation—not even today, when it seems that the only people who are adamant in their claim that public and private morality are inseparable are those creep-evangelists who profess to "know" that God prefers capitalists to communists, and nuclear power to long hair.†   (source)
  • The dominance of the Circle stifles competition and is dangerous to our way of free-market capitalism.†   (source)
  • And he was more interested in denouncing the faults of the capitalist world than in cataloging the failures of socialism.†   (source)
  • Under the guise of discussing environmental problems, it seeks to justify the ultimate corruption of the capitalist world.†   (source)
  • In 1986 the group decided to target Mc-Donald's, later explaining that the company "epitomises everything we despise: a junk culture, the deadly banality of capitalism."†   (source)
  • It was discouraging to be employed by such blatant capitalists, said Callie, but the main thing was the message, and at least anyone going past the banks and so forth on the street would be able to see these bas-reliefs, free of charge.†   (source)
  • Throughout the Cold War, America's decentralized system of agriculture, relying upon millions of independent producers, was depicted as the most productive system in the world, as proof of capitalism's inherent superiority.†   (source)
  • Silent Spring was published in America in 1962 and has been quite influential in the capitalist world.†   (source)
  • The Minos story took place more than a decade ago, just after the Wall came down and the Bolsheviks starting acting like decent capitalists.†   (source)
  • During her struggle sessions, the Red Guards had hung a pair of high heels around her neck and streaked her face with lipstick to show how she had lived the corrupt lifestyle of a capitalist.†   (source)
  • By then he had reached modern times and was paging through images of Vanger in his prime, opening factories, shaking hands with Tage Erlander, one of Vanger and Marcus Wallenberg—the two capitalists staring grimly at each other.†   (source)
  • You explained to your students that all scientific accomplishments resulted from the wisdom of the working masses, and those capitalist academic authorities only stole these fruits and put their names on them.†   (source)
  • I believed that the Cultural Revolution was necessary to prevent revisionism and capitalism from taking over China.†   (source)
  • Now she was called a black model, and because her father was a capitalist and her mother had committed suicide, she was criticized all the more.†   (source)
  • Our family had a capitalist bed, too.†   (source)
  • You're a capitalist."†   (source)
  • But converting a Soviet-era factory to a Schwinn-owned, capitalist model of efficiency — this had been madness.†   (source)
  • 'Sheng's an avowed Marxist where the centralized state is concerned, but he has a healthy respect for capitalistic profits.'†   (source)
  • That's called capitalism.†   (source)
  • It is capitalism at its most efficient, loyalty and service extracted by equal parts fear and reward.†   (source)
  • Obviously I haven't been there since speaking to former Officer Como the other day, and I'm having trouble conjuring my former daughter even setting foot in such a place (self-styled anti-capitalist as she was, or at least, anti—Sunny Medical Supply), much less being a manager of a women's better-clothing store.†   (source)
  • The perfect capitalist tool.†   (source)
  • Keep the commies out of capitalism.†   (source)
  • While one might recognize the inequities of life under Communism and yearn for justice, religious freedom, a chance to develop as an individual, another might simply want to get rich, having read about how greedy capitalists exploit the masses and decided that being an exploiter has its good points.†   (source)
  • I sold capitalism to communists.†   (source)
  • They disliked capitalism and swords: that was not surprising, but Alessandro could not understand why they hated horses.†   (source)
  • He has a healthy and honest attitude about his chicanery, and I'm all for him, just as I'm for the dear old capitalistic system of free individual enterprise, comrades, for him and his downright bullheaded gall and the American flag, bless it, and the Lincoln Memorial and the whole bit.†   (source)
  • We accept as a verity of capitalism that someone (usually an expert) knows more than someone else (usually a consumer).†   (source)
  • In other words, a crack gang works pretty much like the standard capitalist enterprise: you have to be near the top of the pyramid to make a big wage.†   (source)
  • He hadn't read the newspaper and didn't feel qualified to join the continual debates about communism, Leninism, socialism, capitalism, fascism, and syndicalism.†   (source)
  • This might be Red China, but negotiations were older than capitalism, and the capitalists, aware of their fatigue, would not discuss business until they could think straight.†   (source)
  • By your reasoning, you want the rules of capitalism to apply solely to the employees of SMP, while you and the stockholders will be exempt.†   (source)
  • Social entrepreneurs tend not to have the traditional liberal suspicion of capitalism, and many charge for services and use a business model to achieve sustainability.†   (source)
  • It was a mark of the sort of greed that did not go down well with the Swedish people in the wake of the revelations about other criminal capitalists such as Skandia's former president.†   (source)
  • "Ludovico Indian," he said gendy, but firmly, "since its beginning the world has seen empires, theocracies, slave states, anarchy, feudalism, capitalism, revolutionary states, and everything else you can think of, and no matter what the variation, the bloodstained stakes, guillotines, and killing grounds remain."†   (source)
  • As you said yourself, Sheng Chou Yang has made China a great deal of money, and if there was ever a basically capitalistic people it's the Chinese.†   (source)
  • The West's face is beet red with internal capitalistic corruption, so the territory marches to a Marxist drum — actually they wouldn't have a choice.†   (source)
  • He's the quintessential capitalist.†   (source)
  • This might be Red China, but negotiations were older than capitalism, and the capitalists, aware of their fatigue, would not discuss business until they could think straight.†   (source)
  • This visit by Nixon was confirmation that Mao's communism had won the final battle against capitalism.†   (source)
  • Eventually I talked myself into believing that if I had stayed in America any longer, I would surely have seen so many bad things about capitalism that I wouldn't have liked America at all.†   (source)
  • Sounds like a capitalist version of Lei Feng, I thought, the humble soldier Mao had promoted in China as one of his model communists.†   (source)
  • I had realized the capitalist dream.†   (source)
  • But most of all I thought of those dark, scary images of capitalist society and how they had now been replaced by an entirely different picture in my mind.†   (source)
  • But I did notice that the attacks on America's evil capitalist values by the Chinese propaganda machines eased considerably while President Nixon was there.†   (source)
  • Their confessions were often disrupted by the man with the handheld speaker, who shouted revolutionary slogans such as "Knock down and kill the capitalists!" or "Never allow Chiang Kaishek and the landlords toreturn!" or "Never forget the cruel life of the old China and always remember the sweet life of the new China!"†   (source)
  • The Communist Party's main aim, on the other hand, was to remove the capitalists and to replace them with a working-class government.†   (source)
  • This bloke that Hanby spoke to (he was just a little, ordinary chap with specs, white-collar type) said it had been so sudden—spontaneous was what he meant—and it just proved to Hanby once again how incendiary was the fabric of the capitalist system.†   (source)
  • …on C. Vann Woodward's brilliant study of Tom Watson of Georgia and concentrating on other hagridden folk heroes like "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman and James K. Vardaman and "Cotton Ed" Smith and Huey Long, I demonstrated how democratic idealism and honest concern for the common man were virtues which linked all these men together, at least in their early careers, along with a concomitant and highly vocal opposition to monopoly capitalism, industrial and business fat cats and "big money."†   (source)
  • It was many months later before I learned how Piedmont had probably handled vexing problems with the semiliterate though obstinate workers who greased looms on the midnight shift and rocked the vessel of obedience in defiance of the invisible capitalists who ruled the mills from far away.†   (source)
  • The ANC has never at any period of its history advocated a revolutionary change in the economic structure of the country, nor has it, to the best of my recollection, ever condemned capitalist society.†   (source)
  • …at each other, some of them, the rest of them nodding, very solemn, as if it were all oh so interesting, talking about books nobody past the age of twelve would read all the way through except to punish himself, yammering about Communism and Capitalism and Christianity and the Good Lay, and back in the dorm all the baby professors would do imitations, learning the gestures and the Right Quotations, prattling about Tillich and Bishop Pike and Mr. Fromm, and relaxing their minds in the…†   (source)
  • The capitalistic basis of the great values of Western culture will preclude solution of the world's problems.†   (source)
  • You will say it's against man's grain, because, like any honest Jew, you are a capitalist: man's pride, confidence, is a function of his knowledge that this and this he possesses.†   (source)
  • Capitalist liquor sellers.†   (source)
  • Peddler pimp for nouveau-riche capitalism!†   (source)
  • —but since I am an inhibited capitalist, I shall not do so.†   (source)
  • It's your nature that's too fine for the brute competition of our capitalistic system.†   (source)
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