capitalism

in a sentence

It started to become clear to Wes: the drug game was raw capitalism on overdrive with bullets, a pyramid scheme whose base was dead bodies and ruined lives.  (source) Wes Moore, The Other Wes Moore, 2010

London's fervent condemnation of capitalist society, his glorification of the primordial world, his championing of the great unwashed, all of it mirrored McCandless's passions.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

What did Marx consider to be the contradiction in capitalism?  (source) Meg Cabot, The Princess Diaries, 2000

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) Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard, Killing Kennedy, 2012

Moreover, labor now belongs to the workers themselves and capitalism's alienation ceases.  (source) Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World, 1991

The analogy, however, seems to falter when one considers that, while there were no witches then, there are Communists and capitalists now, and in each camp there is certain proof that spies of each side are at work undermining the other.  (source) Arthur Miller, The Crucible, 1953

Let's be honest and give this man his due instead of secretly criticizing his capitalistic talent.†  (source) Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1962

I assume it eases his anticapitalist conscience to dwell in poor man's quarters, and that he compensates for it by the style in which he lives.†  (source) Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain, 1924

"Capitalist's Daughter Aids Bolshevik Murderer?" he said.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000

It's capitalism: Cutthroat, profit-motivated and expedient.  (source) Luis J. Rodriguez, Always Running, 1992

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) F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, 1925

Neither could tolerate the socialistic theory relative to capitalistic exploitation.†  (source) Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy, 1925

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) Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala, 2013