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Alf Lüdtke

His article describes the idea that state violence under the feudal system was necessary to create a control amongst the Prussian working class in order to prepare them for the different structure of capitalist society.

Bishop Ireton High School

Tim O'Reilly, founder of O'Reilly Media, venture capitalist and high-tech executive noted for promotion of open source software and reform of the U.S. patent system

Can Dialectics Break Bricks?

The film also contains many praising references to revolutionaries who thought and fought for the realisation of a post-capitalist world, including Marx, Bakunin, and Wilhelm Reich, as well as scathing criticism towards the French Communist Party, trade unionism and Maoism.

Capitalist mode of production

Supporters of theories of state capitalism such as the International Socialists reject the definition of the capitalist mode of production given above.

Comparative economic systems

The comparative study of economic systems was of significant practical and political significance during the Cold War, when the relative merits of capitalist and communist systems of economic and political organization were a central topic of political concern.

Daria Khaltourina

Khaltourina and her colleagues have demonstrated that Protestantism has indeed influenced positively the capitalist development of respective social systems not so much through the "Protestant ethics" (as was suggested by Max Weber) but rather through the promotion of literacy.

David Friedman

David D. Friedman (born 1945), anarcho-capitalist writer, economist, and medieval reenactor

Do As I Say

Michael Moore, staunch anti-capitalist is shown to have significant investments in the stock market, including stock in companies like Halliburton, Pfizer, Merck, and "other companies he vilifies in his films".

Doublespeak

Being himself one of the leaders of the Communist Party of Italy, (CPI), his theories had, in turn, been strongly influenced by the German social thinker Karl Marx, and have their ideological roots grounded in Marxist theory of false consciousness and capitalist exploitation.

Enough Is Enough

Ya Basta Association, network of Italian anti-capitalist and pro-immigrants rights groups

Eric Sheppard

He is identified with a group of radical economic geographers including Trevor J. Barnes and Jamie Peck, who are critical of the tendency of the modern capitalist economy to create great differences in wealth and poverty, and to create environmental problems and injustices.

Hakia

hakia was founded by Rıza Can Berkan, a nuclear scientist by training with a specialization in artificial intelligence and fuzzy logic, and Pentti Kouri, a New York-based economist and venture capitalist.

Hönig

Jonathan Hoenig (born 1975), managing member at Capitalist Pig hedge fund

Hostile Takeover Trilogy

Hostile Takeover is a science fiction trilogy (actually one long novel in three parts) written by S. Andrew Swann and published by DAW Books where the main setting is the Anarcho-capitalist planet of Bakunin.

Howard Morgan

Howard L. Morgan (born 1945), American venture capitalist, philanthropist and writer

Innovation capitalist

The term Innovation Capitalist was coined by Prof. Satish Nambisan of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Prof.Mohanbir Sawhney of Northwestern University in their article in the Harvard Business Review in March 2007.

Iron Rail Book Collective

Categories include Feminism, Anarchism, Ecology and Primitivism, Prisons and Police, Native American Studies, Labor Struggles, Globalization, Capitalist Exploitation and Subculture.

Kevin O'Leary

Founder of SoftKey
Co-investor and Director of Storage Now
Co-founder and Chairman of O'Leary Funds
Co-investor and Venture capitalist in Dragons' Den and Shark Tank
Co-host of The Lang and O'Leary Exchange
Author of the Cold Hard Truth

Kvamme

E. Floyd Kvamme, an American engineer, venture capitalist, and government advisor

Ladislaus Bortkiewicz

This "correction of the Marxian system" has been the great contribution of Bortkiewicz to classical and Marxian economics but it was completely unnoticed until Paul Sweezy's 1942 book "Theory of Capitalist Development".

Larry Yung

When the Cultural Revolution started, because of his "capitalist" background, he was exiled to Liangshan in Sichuan in 1966.

László Széchenyi

Count László Széchenyi de Sárvár-felsővidék (LÁSZLÓ Jenő Mária Henrik Simon) (Horpács, 18 February 1879–Budapest, 5 July 1938) was an Austro Hungarian military officer, Imperial Chamberlain, diplomat and venture capitalist.

Late Victorian Holocausts

"Davis explicitly places his historical reconstruction of these catastrophes in the tradition inaugurated by Rosa Luxemburg in The Accumulation of Capital, where she sought to expose the dependence of the economic mechanisms of capitalist expansion on the infliction of ‘permanent violence’ on the South".

LeChuck

By the fourth game in the series, Escape from Monkey Island, LeChuck has been freed from his icy prison by Ozzie Mandrill, an Australian capitalist.

Man at the Crossroads

It is also discussed in the Tamil film Anbe Sivam, in which an Indian Communist argues with a supporter of the capitalist system.

MOJO HD

MOJO HD aired original programming series such as After Hours with Daniel, Three Sheets, I Bet You, Pressure Cook, Wall Street Warriors, Bobby G: Adventure Capitalist, Start-Up Junkies, Dr. Danger, The King of Miami, The Show, and Uncorked with Billy Merritt.

Nomenklatura

Milovan Đilas, an opponent of the Soviet regime, wrote of the nomenklatura as the new class in his book The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System, and he claimed that it was seen by ordinary citizens as a bureaucratic élite that enjoyed special privileges and had supplanted the earlier wealthy capitalist élites.

North Dakota gubernatorial recall election

The recall stemmed from the conflict between the socialist-leaning Nonpartisan League, of which Governor Frazier was a member, and the Independent Voters Association, a conservative and pro-capitalist faction.

Northfield, Massachusetts

Francis Schell, a New York capitalist attracted by his interest in Moody's work at the Northfield Seminary, commissioned architect Bruce Price to design a summer home, which became known as the Northfield Chateau.

Palacio de Bellas Artes

A giant vacuum sucks up the riches of the earth to feed the factories of card-playing, hard-drinking white capitalist thugs, including John D. Rockefeller himself while workers rally behind the red flag of socialism and its standard-bearer, Lenin.

Peter B. Denyer

According to the Royal Society, Denyer's “promotion from Reader to Professor set a record – on October 1st 1986 he was appointed Reader, but the very next day he was appointed to the Advent Chair of Integrated Electronics (Venture Capital), becoming the youngest Professor at the University of Edinburgh. Through the venture capitalist Advent, this post carried consultancy links with many other companies.”

Proletarian nation

A similar conception was invoked in Germany during World War I by Johann Plenge, who advocated a "National Socialism" and described the war as being between a "proletarian" Germany versus a "capitalist" Britain.

Qi Benyu

From 1967 on Qi, together with Wang Li, Guan Feng and other members of the Cultural Revolution Group, started to accelerate Mao's plans for implementing the Cultural Revolution in the Army too, and where calling for the peoples to find out the "few Capitalist Roaders" within the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA).

Rudolf Slánský

Party rhetoric asserted that Slánský was spying as part of an international Western capitalist conspiracy to undermine socialism, and that punishing him would avenge the Nazi murders of Czech Communists Jan Šverma and Julius Fučík during World War II.

Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life

Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life is a 1976 book by Marxist economists Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis.

Second Thoughts on James Burnham

He believed Burnham was fascinated by power and was sympathetic to Nazi Germany while they appeared to be winning, but by 1945 had transferred his sympathy to the USSR He noted however that the theme of a new (and probably servile) society – neither capitalist nor socialist – was predicted in many works such as Belloc's The Servile State, and dystopian novels such as Wells' The Sleeper Awakes,Zamyatin's We and Huxley's Brave New World.

Spitz Prize

1998 – John Dryzek for Democracy in Capitalist Times: Ideals, Limits, and Struggles

Third World

French demographer, anthropologist and historian Alfred Sauvy, in an article published in the French magazine L'Observateur, August 14, 1952, coined the term Third World, referring to countries that were unaligned with either the Communist Soviet bloc or the Capitalist NATO bloc during the Cold War.

Tony Cliff

The Fourth International held until 1951 that the 'glacis' states had remained capitalist even while the FI maintained the position that Russia was a degenerated workers' state.

Trevor J. Barnes

Sheppard, E., and Barnes, T.J. The Capitalist Space Economy: Geographical Analysis After Ricardo, Marx and Sraffa.

U.S. Venture Partners

Bill Bowes, who is the last remaining founding partner at USVP had worked as a venture capitalist prior to USVP working with companies including Cetus, Raychem Corporation and Dymo Industries.

Where My Communist Heart Meets My Capitalist Mind

Where My Communist Heart Meets My Capitalist Mind is the sophomore studio album by alternative rock band Sounds Under Radio.

WOMBLES

The WOMBLES (White Overalls Movement Building Libertarian Effective Struggles) are a loosely aligned anarchist and anti-capitalist group based in London.

Workers and Socialist Party

The party has distanced itself "outright" from the "corruption of pro-capitalist politicians and political parties".


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