contradiction of capitalism
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contradiction
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌkɒn.trəˈdɪk.ʃən/us/ˌkɑːn.trəˈdɪk.ʃən/
the fact of something being the complete opposite of something else or very different from something else, so that one of them must ...
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capitalism
noun[U]
uk/ˈkæp.ɪ.təl.ɪ.zəm/us/ˈkæp.ə.t̬əl.ɪ.zəm/
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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The fundamentalcontradictionofcapitalism—one which is getting sharper and sharper—is the two opposing classes: employers and workers, profits and wages.
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This is the secondcontradictionofcapitalism, between the relations and forces of production and its conditions.
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Others see the contradictions of capitalism as the source of policy change.
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More recently, the economic and social contradictions of capitalism in late modernity have brought many old assumptions into question.
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The end of ideology was supposed to solve the internal contradictions of capitalism which had been the focus of class conflict.
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Offe (1984) explains policy changes in terms of the contradictions of capitalism and the role of the state.
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It was an interesting reflection on the present state of the party opposite which revealed the inner contradictions of capitalism most aptly.
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The classic way to make unemployment—one of the classic contradictions of capitalism—is the way of cutting the purchasing, power of the mass of the people.
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In essence, whenever societies move towards increasingly unrestrained, free-market rule, a natural and inevitable societal correction emerges to undermine the contradictions of capitalism.
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He indicated contradictions of capitalism.
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