Knowra Anti-capitalism Anti-capitalism Anti-capitalism is opposition to capitalism’s systems of private ownership, markets, and class relations, often joined to support for alternative economic arrangements.
Capitalism : An economic system organized around private ownership, markets, wage labor, and investment for profit. Anti-capitalist arguments define their target through capitalism’s ownership, labor, and market arrangements.
Industrial Revolution : The transformation toward mechanized production and factory industry that began in Britain in the eighteenth century. Industrialization intensified wage labor and urban inequality that helped spur organized opposition to capitalism.
Social democracy : A political tradition pursuing social equality and worker protections through democratic institutions and a regulated economy. It seeks substantial change without generally abolishing capitalism, separating it from revolutionary anti-capitalism.
Trade union : An organization of workers formed to negotiate collectively over wages, conditions, and employment rights. Unions contest employer power within capitalism and have also supported broader socialist movements.
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic : The largest constituent republic of the Soviet Union, established after the Russian Revolution. Its government attempted to replace capitalist ownership with centralized state control of production.
Private property : A legal system granting individuals or organizations rights to possess, use, and transfer assets. Disputes over productive property distinguish many anti-capitalist programs from reforms within capitalism.
Utopian socialism : Early socialist thought proposing cooperative communities as alternatives to competitive industrial society. Its communal experiments offered influential alternatives before Marxism became a dominant socialist current.
Anarchism : A political tradition opposing coercive hierarchy and advocating voluntary, decentralized forms of organization. Anarchist anti-capitalists reject both private capitalist power and centralized state ownership.
Cooperative : An enterprise or association owned and democratically controlled by its members. Cooperatives put shared ownership into practice without requiring a single national economic plan.
Welfare state : A system in which government provides social insurance and public services to reduce economic insecurity. Labor and socialist movements helped press capitalist states to adopt protections that stopped short of abolition.
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