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late capitalist

late capitalist adjective: characteristic of late capitalism.

Adjective

late capitalist (comparative more late capitalist, superlative most late capitalist)

  1. Characteristic of late capitalism.
    • Indeed, this peculiar juxtaposition of a discourse about needs with discourses about rights and interests is one of the distinctive marks of late capitalist political culture. (Fraser 1989: 162)1996, Barbara Sullivan, Gillian Whitehouse, editors, Gender, Politics, and Citizenship in the 1990s, University of New South Wales Press, page 64
    • If tourism is a capitalist phenomenon, overtourism is its demented late-capitalist cousin: selfie-stick deaths, all-you-can-eat ships docking at historic ports, stag nights that end in property crimes, the live-streaming of the ruination of fragile natural habitats, et cetera.2019 June 4, Annie Lowrey, “Too Many People Want to Travel”, in The Atlantic

Forms of late capitalist

comparativemore late capitalist
superlativemost late capitalist
alternative formlate-capitalist

Questions about late capitalist

What does late capitalist mean?
Late capitalist means characteristic of late capitalism.
What part of speech is late capitalist?
Late capitalist is an adjective.

Words near late capitalist in the dictionary

  1. late bloomers
  2. Late Bronze Age
  3. Late Bronze Age collapse
  4. late capitalism
  5. late capitalisms
  6. late capitalist
  7. late effect
  8. late effects
  9. Late Egyptian
  10. late fee
  11. late fees

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