All 17 Uses
capitalism
in
Mao’s Last Dancer
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- If anyone looked up, he would be regarded as arrogant or too stubborn to change and too deeply influenced by capitalist filth.†
Chpt 1.4 *capitalist = one who believes in an economic system based on voluntary exchange in a competitive environment with private ownership of property and businesses
- 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 to return!" or "Never forget the cruel life of the old China and always remember the sweet life of the new China!"†
Chpt 1.4capitalists = people who believe in an economic system based on voluntary exchange in a competitive environment with private ownership of property and businesses
- This visit by Nixon was confirmation that Mao's communism had won the final battle against capitalism.†
Chpt 2.10capitalism = an economic system based on voluntary exchange in a competitive environment with private ownership of property and businesses
- 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.†
Chpt 2.10capitalist = one who believes in an economic system based on voluntary exchange in a competitive environment with private ownership of property and businesses
- Giselle, for example, was clearly a story from a rotten capitalist society.†
Chpt 2.14
- "You can tell this ballet was designed by a capitalist," our political head said.†
Chpt 2.14
- The officials are worried about capitalist influences.†
Chpt 2.15
- The pursuit of material things, that capitalist tumor, began to take on a different meaning.†
Chpt 2.15
- Resist capitalist influences and make sure you exercise your communist judgment.†
Chpt 2.17
- Chapter 18 — THE FILTHY CAPITALIST AMERICA.†
Chpt 2.18
- But most of all I thought of those dark, scary images of capitalist society and how they had now been replaced by an entirely different picture in my mind.†
Chpt 2.18
- 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.†
Chpt 2.19capitalism = an economic system based on voluntary exchange in a competitive environment with private ownership of property and businesses
- How could eighteen years of communism be so easily influenced by six short weeks of capitalism?†
Chpt 2.19
- So I made up some bad things about "rotten capitalist influences."†
Chpt 2.19capitalist = one who believes in an economic system based on voluntary exchange in a competitive environment with private ownership of property and businesses
- Sounds like a capitalist version of Lei Feng, I thought, the humble soldier Mao had promoted in China as one of his model communists.†
Chpt 3.20
- I had realized the capitalist dream.†
Chpt 3.24
- Ben jokingly remarked to other people, "Communists make the best capitalists."†
Chpt 3.24capitalists = people who believe in an economic system based on voluntary exchange in a competitive environment with private ownership of property and businesses
Definitions:
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(1)
(capitalism) an economic system based on voluntary exchange in a competitive environment with private ownership of property and businessesProponents of capitalism argue that voluntary exchanges tap into people’s local knowledge and natural self-interest, channeling millions of everyday decisions into broader benefits for society. At the same time, most of them also support a role for government in addressing problems that “pure” capitalism handles poorly—such as monopolies, shared costs and benefits like pollution and national defense, and providing a safety net for those who are hit by bad luck.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)