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postcapitalist

postcapitalist adjective: after capitalism.

Adjective

postcapitalist (not comparable)

  1. After capitalism.
    • Put it like this and it is not hard to see the possibility of a “post-capitalist” era – although the inability to see a path to it is what blights all modern social movements.2014 November 2, Paul Mason, “What Shakespeare taught me about Marxism”, in The Guardian
    • As the world confronts more evidence of the effects of climate change – from floods in Pakistan to heatwaves in Britain – rampant inflation and the energy crisis, [Kohei] Saito’s vision of a more sustainable, post-capitalist world will appear in an academic text to be published next year by...2022 September 9, Justin McCurry, “‘A new way of life’: the Marxist, post-capitalist, green manifesto captivating Japan”, in The Guardian

Noun

postcapitalist (plural postcapitalists)

  1. A proponent of postcapitalism.
    • You can spin out various possible futures for the island: In one version, disaster capitalists and bitcoin entrepreneurs arrive in their yachts and private jets, turning Puerto Rico into a crypto St. Barts; in another, post-capitalists build a paradise powered by solar microgrids, community gardens...2018 September 12, Jeff Goodell, “The Perfect Storm: How Climate Change and Wall Street Almost Killed Puerto Rico”, in Rolling Stone

Forms of postcapitalist

Adjective
alternative formpost-capitalist
Noun
pluralpostcapitalists

Origin of postcapitalist

From post- + capitalist.

Questions about postcapitalist

What does postcapitalist mean?
Postcapitalist means after capitalism.
What part of speech is postcapitalist?
Postcapitalist can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near postcapitalist in the dictionary

  1. postcanon
  2. postcanonical
  3. postcapillaries
  4. postcapillary
  5. postcapitalism
  6. postcapitalist
  7. postcapitalists
  8. postcapsulotomy
  9. postcaptain
  10. postcaptains
  11. postcapture

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