capitalist society

collocation in English

meaningsofcapitalistandsociety

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capitalist
adjective
uk
/ˈkæp.ɪ.təl.ɪst/us
/ˈkæp.ə.t̬əl.ɪst/
based on the system of capitalism (= an economic and political system in which property, business, and industry are controlled by private owners rather than by the state, with the purpose of making ...
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society
noun
uk
/səˈsaɪ.ə.ti/us
/səˈsaɪ.ə.t̬i/
a large group of people who live together in an organized way, making decisions about how to do things and sharing the work that needs to be done. All the people in a country, or in several similar countries, can be referred to as ...
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(Definition ofcapitalistandsocietyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In the process, the book raises several important issues about the formation and maintenance of residential space in onecapitalistsociety.
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Municipal undertakings took on a capitalist character because they operated in acapitalistsociety.
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Socialism must grow out of an advancedcapitalistsociety.
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On the contrary, he suggests that socialist policies produced a type ofcapitalistsociety.
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Incapitalistsocietythe social entities corresponding to these categories do exist.
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We may extend the implications of the gaze to its hegemonic function as the spatial practice ofcapitalistsociety.
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What role does the generalization of the manufacturing viewpoint play in the class struggles that bring about the rise ofcapitalistsociety?
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Phillipson19 identified how these were shaped by the social relations and institutions characteristic of acapitalistsociety.
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Yet it might have benefited from a stronger engagement with the vast theoretical literature on the political power wielded by economic elites in a democraticcapitalistsociety.
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It has provided a commentary on the accelerating pace of change incapitalistsocietyand continues to use the fantastic to make sense of the dark magic of nature.
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Viewed from the perspective of the working-class movement, these changes illustrate the compound of material gain and ideological loss inherent in those reforms which stabilizecapitalistsociety.
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Moreover, in latecapitalistsociety, it is ideologically significant that metaphors for activity and success should have developed into the highly elaborated theme of a competitive race.
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Nishida's philosophy was formulated in acapitalistsocietyfounded on the primacy of private property and the pursuit of individual and divided material interests.
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Bellamy's condemnation of the injustices ofcapitalistsocietyand his depiction of a future social order without poverty drew approval from a wide variety of reformers.
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I condemn the economies, as being the most brutal and outrageous thing that we have ever seen incapitalistsociety.
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One is led to think that a school is an organisation for rectifying the evils of thecapitalistsociety.
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Bewildered and terrified that ourcapitalistsocietyis under relentless attack, they band over the keys of our security to militarists and rocketeers.
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