supercapitalism
supercapitalism noun: any especially intense and competitive form of capitalism.
Noun
supercapitalism (uncountable)
- Any especially intense and competitive form of capitalism.
- Together, newly powerful shoppers and shareholders of this supercapitalism drove a decline in labor unions and a frenzy by corporations desperate to buy some market advantage in Washington.2007 September 2, Stephen Kotkin, “Dangers of a Turbocharged Economy”, in New York Times
- Synonyms:
- hypercapitalism
- A form of degenerated capitalism.
- When Lenin spoke about “a series of exclusions from freedom” which individuals and “capitalists” enjoy in what he called “democratism”, he was not very far away from Mussolini's rejection of “supercapitalism” which according to him meant the degeneration of “heroic and dynamic capitalism.”2014, Peter Murphy, Eduardo de la Fuente, editors, Aesthetic Capitalism, BRILL, →ISBN, page 35
Synonyms of supercapitalism
Origin of supercapitalism
From super- + capitalism.
Questions about supercapitalism
- What does supercapitalism mean?
- Supercapitalism means any especially intense and competitive form of capitalism.
- What part of speech is supercapitalism?
- Supercapitalism is a noun.
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