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The 69 pages that link to Capitalism, each with the reason it gives.

• Soviet UnionCompared with: Soviet leaders defined their economic project in opposition to capitalist ownership and markets.

• Karl MarxNarrower topic: It is the social order Marx examined most closely and criticized.

• SocialismCompared with: Socialism developed as a critique of capitalist ownership and its distribution of economic power.

• CommunismCompared with: It is the economic order communism seeks to replace in Marxist theory.

• Class struggleRelated: Its separation of owners from wage workers is a central setting for modern class struggle.

• Social reproductionRelated: Its labor and ownership relations shape the class inequalities reproduced over time.

• Catholic social teachingCompared with: Catholic teaching neither simply endorses nor rejects markets, but judges them by human dignity and justice.

• Private propertyRelated: Private ownership of capital is a defining institution of capitalist economies.

• Market socialismCompared with: It pairs market coordination with predominantly private ownership, unlike market socialism.

• The Communist ManifestoNarrower topic: The pamphlet analyzes capitalism as the system whose contradictions generate class conflict.

• ModernityRelated: Market competition and capital accumulation became central to modern economic life.

• Capital accumulationNarrower topic: Capital accumulation is a recurring dynamic of capitalist economies.

• Commodity fetishismNarrower topic: Commodity fetishism describes a characteristic appearance of social relations under capitalism.

• Economic calculation problemCompared with: Its asset markets generate prices that proponents say enable comparisons among production plans.

• Mixed economyNarrower topic: Mixed economies retain the private property and markets central to capitalism.

• State capitalismNarrower topic: The concept modifies capitalism's usual ownership pattern rather than abandoning commercial production and exchange.

• ProletariatNarrower topic: The proletariat emerges as a class within capitalist production relations.

• State socialismCompared with: Its reliance on private ownership and market coordination contrasts with state control of major economic activity.

• Workers' self-managementCompared with: It commonly places workplace control with owners and managers rather than workers collectively.

• Means of productionNarrower topic: This broader system is commonly defined by private ownership of productive assets.

• Mode of productionBroader topic: It is the mode Marx analyzed most extensively, especially its wage-labor relation.

• ReificationNarrower topic: Lukács treated reification as a characteristic form of consciousness under capitalist social relations.

• Combahee River CollectiveRelated: The Collective’s socialist politics treated economic exploitation as part of the oppression Black women faced.

• Socialist feminismNarrower topic: Its organization of work and resources forms one pole of the tradition’s central analysis.

• Anarchist communismCompared with: Its property and wage relations are the economic structures anarchist communism seeks to replace.

• African socialismCompared with: African socialism challenged dependence on private capital and foreign-owned economic structures.

• Joseph SchumpeterNarrower topic: Schumpeter analyzed how innovation reshapes capitalism and may undermine its social foundations.

• Erfurt ProgramRelated: Its theoretical section described capitalism as generating concentration of wealth and conflict between classes.

• Eric HobsbawmRelated: The rise and crises of capitalism organize much of his modern-history narrative.

• Economic democracyCompared with: Private ownership and investor control are common targets of economic-democratic reform.

• Industrial societyNarrower topic: Industrial society developed within capitalist institutions that direct investment toward production and profit.

• NasserismCompared with: Nasserist state planning and public ownership rejected capitalism as the primary route to development.

• UjamaaCompared with: Ujamaa’s emphasis on public ownership and cooperation offered a competing economic model.

• Arusha DeclarationCompared with: The declaration challenged private control of major resources and the inequalities it could produce.

• BourgeoisieNarrower topic: The bourgeoisie is the class that owns or controls productive capital within this system.

• Participatory economicsCompared with: Participatory economics rejects private control of productive assets and market allocation.

• Socialist market economyCompared with: Private ownership plays a larger organizing role in capitalism.

• Agrarian socialismCompared with: Private control of farmland and production conflicts with the ideology’s collective ownership aims.

• CommodityNarrower topic: Commodity production becomes systematic when production is organized around markets and profit.

• Slavoj ŽižekRelated: Žižek analyzes how capitalist ideology shapes desire and makes social arrangements appear inevitable.

• Capital (economics)Narrower topic: Capital ownership is a defining institution in this broader economic system.

• DistributismCompared with: Distributists criticize capitalist systems when ownership and bargaining power become concentrated.

• Libertarian socialismCompared with: Libertarian socialism rejects private capitalist control of productive resources.

• Scientific socialismNarrower topic: The doctrine analyzes capitalism as the system whose contradictions prepare its successor.

• Dipesh ChakrabartyRelated: His work examines capitalism both as a historical force and as an incomplete explanation of climate change.

• Man at the CrossroadsCompared with: The mural set capitalist imagery against a socialist alternative, making its political split legible.

• The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of CapitalismNarrower topic: The book’s disputed question is how this broader system emerged and acquired its characteristic ethos.

• G. K. ChestertonCompared with: Chesterton criticized concentrated wealth and corporate power without endorsing socialist state control.

• Werner SombartRelated: Capitalism was the central historical system Sombart sought to explain.

• Economic systemBroader topic: It is a prominent system built around private ownership and market exchange.