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Example sentences for "capitalism"

Lexicographically close words:
capital; capitale; capitalis; capitalisation; capitalised; capitalist; capitalistic; capitalists; capitalization; capitalize
  1. But we respect the only foes who are fighting us as we are fighting capitalism with honest convictions and real ardor.

  2. Giving money to those who haven't any simply perpetuates Capitalism besides alienating the Christian vote.

  3. I took these victims of society and capitalism and organized them, and then I emptied them into the golden Cloaca Maxima that you call Fifth Avenue, and lo!

  4. Capitalism found a world of wood and iron ore, and made it into a world of steel.

  5. Under capitalism the world has been able to feed twice as many mouths as could be fed before.

  6. Equal division is the goal that capitalism constantly approaches.

  7. I now have seen enough to know that capitalism is not a swindle.

  8. One of them was called Merrie England and declared that England had once been merry, but capitalism had crushed all joy and turned the island into a living hell.

  9. So this is the slavery that capitalism has driven us to; we are forced to give our children more comforts than we had ourselves.

  10. If capitalism had crushed her heart she hadn't heard about it.

  11. I do not think State Socialism can give this sense of freedom, but some other forms of Socialism, which have absorbed what is true in Anarchist teaching, can give it to a degree of which capitalism is wholly incapable.

  12. I do not wish to be thought to deny that capitalism does very much to promote wars, or that wars would probably be less frequent and less destructive if private property were abolished.

  13. The financial economy of American capitalism exhibits in more dramatic shape a tendency common to the finance of all developed industrial nations.

  14. It is time now to look at the other side, and to ask ourselves whether the abolition of capitalism would, by itself, be sufficient to prevent war.

  15. The Press is the second great factor to which critics of capitalism point when they wish to prove that capitalism is the source of modern war.

  16. One of the commonplaces of both Socialism and Anarchism is that all modern wars are due to capitalism, and would cease if capitalism were abolished.

  17. So far we have been considering what is true in the contention that capitalism causes modern wars.

  18. It will only be cured by the abolition of capitalism if the new system is one which allows very much less power to single individuals.

  19. Capitalism has made of work a purely commercial activity, a soulless and a joyless thing.

  20. Capitalism made of work so foul a thing that it couldn't be found there.

  21. Jewish capitalism knows exactly what it is doing.

  22. The writer says that "the Jew evolved organized capitalism with its working instrumentality, the banking system.

  23. If the Bolshevists had been honest, they could have dealt Jewish capitalism its death blow.

  24. There is a super-capitalism which is supported wholly by the fiction that gold is wealth.

  25. But the Jews have not destroyed capitalism in Russia.

  26. By the premeditated clumsiness of the Bolshevik monetary system, the unthinking world has been made to believe still more strongly that gold is necessary, and this belief gives Jewish capitalism another hold on the Gentile world.

  27. We shall feel free to choose among alternatives--to take this much of socialism, insert so much syndicalism, leave standing what of capitalism seems worth conserving.

  28. He who is watching the ascendant ideas of American life can afford to feel that the early maxims of capitalism are doomed.

  29. They gave capitalism the sanction of the intellect.

  30. For it happens that in this case the interests of capitalism and of humanity coincide.

  31. The imagination is more vivid: the horror of capitalism is not alone in the poverty and suffering it entails, but in its ruthless denial of life to millions of men.

  32. That was the nauseating method of nineteenth century economists when they tried to identify the brutal practices of capitalism with the beneficence of nature and the Will of God.

  33. That is a new kind of revolt--more dangerous to capitalism than the demand for higher wages.

  34. Ask any such apologist for capitalism what he would think of the father or mother who took his or her eight children and said: "Here are eight cakes, as many cakes as there are boys and girls.

  35. I say that we must vote for Socialism, Jonathan, because I believe that, in this country at least, the change from capitalism must be brought about through patient and wise political action.

  36. But I have heard capitalists and the defenders of capitalism advocate violence toward Socialists in cold-blooded deliberation.

  37. Men who see the misery and despair produced by capitalism think with joy of the days to come when the misery and despair are replaced by gladsomeness and hope.

  38. Capitalism had to have intelligent workers and many educated ones.

  39. When capitalism began, when it came with its steam engine and its power-loom, what was the first thing it did?

  40. Now, I want to go a step further: I want to take an affirmative position and to say that Socialism comes as the defender of the home and the family; that capitalism from the very first has been attacking the home.

  41. Capitalism has not been all bad; it has another, brighter side.

  42. Under primitive capitalism there was some justification for this view.

  43. But when capitalism developed and became impersonal that idea of the nature of profits was killed.

  44. Capitalism began when a class of property owners employed other men to work for wages.

  45. That is a dream, but no Socialist rests upon the dream merely: the hope of the Socialist is in the very material fact of the economic development from competition to monopoly; in the breakdown of capitalism itself.

  46. Sometimes this was done by means of brutal and bloody wars, for capitalism is never particular about the methods it adopts.

  47. Here is capitalism cutting at the very heart of the home, with Socialism as the only defender of the home it is charged with attacking.

  48. Capitalism makes humanity appear as a great plain with a few peaks immense distances apart--a dull level of mental and moral attainment with a few giants.

  49. HENRI FARR (Freeland): So far as by capitalism is to be understood the conversion of any actual surplus production into working capital, we in Freeland are far from having broken with it.

  50. Most of this legislation will become an insufferable restraint upon freedom and variety of action when Capitalism goes the way of Druidic human sacrifice (a much less slaughterous institution).

  51. It is true that employers do act in this way every day to their workpeople; but this is not a justified and intended part of the situation: it is an abuse of Capitalism which nobody defends in principle.

  52. The army of production must be organized, not only for the every-day struggle with capitalists, but to carry on production when capitalism shall have been overthrown.

  53. The other two clauses are worded as follows: Between these two classes [proletarian and capitalist] the struggle must continue until capitalism is abolished .

  54. Even though capitalism may be ripe for replacement, the I.

  55. Capitalism was a world phenomenon, and all the forces of parasitism and exploitation which had swept Europe into this tragedy were active here in America.

  56. And this was the fate which capitalism had handed out to an ardent anti-militarist, a propagandist of international fraternity!

  57. Democracy not only allows mankind to choose freely between capitalism and collectivism, but it includes marxist governments, parties and press.

  58. As an active, working concept, the fraternity of labor is just as certainly a product of capitalism as is social toleration.

  59. To the Socialists themselves capitalism appears endowed with a soul, to whose purposes capital's immediate processes are merely instrumental.

  60. To speak of capitalism as endowed with a soul, is indeed a paradox.

  61. All the mixing up of peoples, of customs, of ideals, that an incipient capitalism implies, produces a conglomerate that is inevitably ugly.

  62. Were capitalism to be abolished today, the hard-won gains of the last two centuries would vanish.

  63. The body of capitalism is none too responsive; therefore we may be certain that it must, in the end, be discarded.

  64. Nevertheless, under capitalism the laborer does undoubtedly make gains in personal liberty which he could not have made under earlier systems.

  65. Capitalism offers no direct pecuniary rewards for virtue and beauty.

  66. National, racial and religious prejudices retain their pristine vitality only where capitalism has not yet reached a high state of development.

  67. So much, however, must be granted: that the liberty afforded the worker by capitalism has its offsets.

  68. If the spirit of capitalism was not yet highly evolved, neither were the liberties sought broadly conceived.

  69. Capitalism will disappear; but can we doubt that it will be honored in history as a most significant stage in the progress of the human soul towards liberty?

  70. Industrial capitalism and ideal democracy are everywhere in controversy; but perhaps only here are they in conflict.

  71. I should like to conclude this one by emphasising the fact that the reality of modern capitalism is menacing that ideal with terrors and even splendours that might well stagger the wavering and impressionable modern spirit.

  72. But Capitalism was never anything so human as a habit; we may say it was never anything so good as a bad habit.

  73. A wise man's attitude towards industrial capitalism will be very like Lincoln's attitude towards slavery.

  74. Capitalism may clear itself of its worst corruptions by such reform as is open to it; by creating humane and healthy conditions for labour, and setting the labouring classes to work under a lucid and recognised law.

  75. What is the real Republic of our day as distinct from the ideal Republic of our fathers, but a heap of corrupt capitalism crawling with worms; with those parasites, the professional politicians?

  76. Capitalism was not a normalcy but an abnormalcy.

  77. The best we can say of that school of capitalism is that it will be unsuccessful.

  78. He will regard many alternatives to capitalism as crude and inhuman, as Lincoln regarded John Brown's raid; because they are.

  79. Calvinism was a mistake, and Capitalism was a mistake, and Teutonism and the flattery of the Northern tribes were mistakes.

  80. But has the groaning of this misery remained unheard in these times, when capitalism has been reaching its height?

  81. On the other hand, neither capitalism nor socialism can protect the reckless and the wasteful against economic suicide.

  82. I am very far from maintaining that capitalism exercised a preponderant influence on the character of economic organization from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries.

  83. Instead of refusing to see capitalism of any kind in the economic life of the bourgeoisie, the author would have recognized, on the contrary, unmistakable evidences of capitalism.

  84. I am aware how incomplete is this rapid sketch of the evolution of capitalism through a thousand years of history.

  85. Let us recognize, then, that capitalism is much older than we have ordinarily thought it.

  86. It shows that the growth of capitalism is not a movement proceeding along a straight line, but has been marked, rather, by a series of separate impulses not forming continuations one of another, but interrupted by crises.

  87. No doubt the capitalism of that time is a collective capitalism: groups, not isolated individuals, are its instruments.

  88. But whatever may be the favor which it still enjoys, the theory which refuses to perceive in the medieval urban economy the least trace of capitalism has found in recent times ever increasing opposition.

  89. The exuberance of capitalism which reached its height in the second half of the sixteenth century was not maintained.

  90. It is incontestable that, from this period on, it succeeded by legal force in diminishing the role which capitalism had played up to that time.

  91. And so we can see that, from the beginning, what we find at the basis of capitalism is intelligence, that same intelligence which Georg Hansen has so well shown, long ago, to be the efficient cause of the emergence of the bourgeoisie.

  92. A more classic application of the Vanderbilt motto in action it would be hard to find, or a more thorough demonstration of the inadequacy of capitalism to rule the genii itself has summoned.

  93. It means, I take it, that capitalism has done its work, and has become a hindrance, that the old industrial and social forms are inadequate to the new requirements and must be remodelled, and that promptly.

  94. Well, I wouldn't say that we--I can't recall us having gone into any detail about anything so relevant to anything as capitalism in this Nation at the time.

  95. Give us as best you can recall his comments and views with respect to capitalism of the variety then existing, or as he understood existed in this Nation.

  96. It is against English capitalism that the worst, the most fatal blow must be dealt.

  97. I am an irreconcilable enemy of European capitalism in Asia, the chief representatives of which are the English.

  98. You know that the view which long prevailed was that every country must first go through the period of capitalism .

  99. Capitalism flourished wherever economic conditions made it possible; such economic conditions did not last very long under the jurisdiction of the military.

  100. In doing so it was not to be bound by any creed of capitalism or communism but was to experiment and seek the most efficient measures for the benefit of the whole community.

  101. Simultaneously they would have to construct an economic system not only modern but equitable, if they wished to avoid the horrors of early capitalism and the tragedy of the industrialist class war.

  102. Nor did they feel that change from imperialist to native capitalism would constitute an advance in itself.

  103. Capitalism helped to thwart a peasant-labor alliance in China, for although the capitalists were an insignificant minority without country-wide influence, its form of control was mobile.

  104. The ideology of capitalism was content in China to remain subordinate as long as the political and legal conditions were favorable to it.

  105. That points the way; we do not need sumptuary laws, though, in times to come, when capitalism is nothing but a historical incident, we may have passed through such laws into a fuller freedom.

  106. The workers themselves had failed to visualise its fundamental causes, land monopoly and the competitive system of industry giving rise to an ever-increasing private capitalism which, to a very large extent, had controlled the Legislature.

  107. The transformation from capitalism to socialism is going on slowly under our eyes.

  108. Again, the old order may be exterminated as it was when Feudalism gave place to Capitalism in France.

  109. In that case the change is slow, as it was when Feudalism gave place to Capitalism in England.


  110. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "capitalism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    capitalism; individualism; isolationism; liberalism; noninterference