anticapitalism
Against private ownership
Anticapitalism is opposition to capitalism as an economic system.
It encompasses various political positions—from socialist and communist movements seeking collective ownership to anarchist rejection of both markets and state.
Someone with anticapitalist views believes the profit motive and private ownership of productive resources create exploitation or inequality: Her anticapitalism grew from witnessing factory conditions firsthand.
Communal economic control
- anarchismPhilosophy rejecting state authority
- communismCollective ownership system
- syndicalismUnion-led worker ownership theory
- mutualismTwo-way biological benefit
Public expression of disapproval
- strikeForceful impact or stoppage
- boycottOrganized economic protest
- activismDirect effort for reform
- sabotageDeliberate disruption of operations
blockade · occupation · picketing · sit-in · work-to-rule · divestment · hacktivism · monkey-wrenching
Member-owned collective enterprises
- communesShared-living communities
- commonsShared community resources
- collectivismGroup primacy doctrine
- kibbutzIsraeli communal farm
Selfish use of others
- commodificationTransforming into sellable goods
- alienationState of being isolated
- neoliberalismPro-market, anti-regulation ideology
- corporatismState-group policy collaboration
consumerism · inequity · plutocracy · oligarchy · hegemony · classism · imperialism · profiteering
Organized resistance to power
- insurrectionViolent uprising against authority
- overthrowForcible removal from power
- rebellionDefiance of established power
- radicalismPursuit of sweeping change
vanguard · expropriation · abolition · liberation · agitation · mobilization · consciousness-raising · praxis
socialism
Communal economic control
- anarchismPhilosophy rejecting state authority
- communismCollective ownership system
- syndicalismUnion-led worker ownership theory
protest
Public expression of disapproval
sabotage · blockade · occupation · picketing · sit-in · work-to-rule · divestment · hacktivism · monkey-wrenching
cooperatives
Member-owned collective enterprises
- communesShared-living communities
- commonsShared community resources
- collectivismGroup primacy doctrine
kibbutz · decommodification · localism · barter · self-management
exploitation
Selfish use of others
- commodificationTransforming into sellable goods
- alienationState of being isolated
- neoliberalismPro-market, anti-regulation ideology
corporatism · consumerism · inequity · plutocracy · oligarchy · hegemony · classism · imperialism · profiteering · dispossession
uprising
Organized resistance to power
- insurrectionViolent uprising against authority
- overthrowForcible removal from power
- rebellionDefiance of established power
radicalism · vanguard · expropriation · abolition · liberation · agitation · mobilization · consciousness-raising · praxis · cadre
anticapitalismcapitalism
Private profit-based economy
laissez-faire · free enterprise · neoliberalism · libertarianism · Austrian economics
anticapitalismconservatism
Preference for existing institutions
fiscal conservatism · plutocracy · objectivism · Milton Friedman · Adam Smith