capitalists
Private enterprise advocates
Capitalists are people who own capital—money, property, or other assets used to generate wealth.
In economic discussion, capitalists are those who own the means of production and employ workers: The capitalists closed the factory and moved operations overseas.
The term can be neutral or pejorative depending on the speaker's politics.
More loosely, a capitalist is anyone who supports or participates in a capitalist economic system.
Creating and managing ventures
- startupsNewly launched businesses
- foundersThose who begin institutions
- venturesRisky new enterprises
- enterprisesCommercial businesses or undertakings
CEOs · executives · management · innovation · self-made · moguls · tycoons · magnates
People with vast fortunes
- millionairesPeople worth seven figures
- affluenceAbundance of money
- fortuneWealth or destiny
- richesAbundant valuable possessions
opulence · plutocrats · oligarchs · inheritance · luxury · philanthropy · patronage · elite
Capitalist ownership class
- ruling classDominant governing stratum
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- inequalityUnequal distribution of resources
- greedExcessive desire for wealth
accumulation · class struggle · proletariat · Marx · socialism · labor exploitation · wage theft · rentiers
Commerce without state intervention
- laissez-faireNoninterference in commerce
- privatizationState sells public assets
- deregulationRemoving governmental business restrictions
- liberalizationReducing state economic controls
neoliberalism · libertarianism · Adam Smith · Ayn Rand · invisible hand · individualism · property rights · profit motive
Ownership stakes or inventory
- bondsTies that unite
- portfolioCollected works or assets
- dividendsProfits paid to shareholders
- equityImpartial treatment or ownership value
shareholders · assets · angel investors · seed funding · IPO · securities · leverage · speculation
Industrial production facilities
- manufacturingIndustrial product creation
- productionMaking or generating something
- assembly lineSequential workstation manufacturing
- industrial revolutionRapid economic mechanization period
automation · mass production · mechanization · steel · textiles · railroads · labor · workers
entrepreneurship
Creating and managing ventures
enterprises · CEOs · executives · management · innovation · self-made · moguls · tycoons · magnates · industrialists
billionaires
People with vast fortunes
- millionairesPeople worth seven figures
- affluenceAbundance of money
- fortuneWealth or destiny
riches · opulence · plutocrats · oligarchs · inheritance · luxury · philanthropy · patronage · elite · privileged
bourgeoisie
Capitalist ownership class
- ruling classDominant governing stratum
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- inequalityUnequal distribution of resources
greed · accumulation · class struggle · proletariat · Marx · socialism · labor exploitation · wage theft · rentiers · profiteering
free market
Commerce without state intervention
- laissez-faireNoninterference in commerce
- privatizationState sells public assets
- deregulationRemoving governmental business restrictions
liberalization · neoliberalism · libertarianism · Adam Smith · Ayn Rand · invisible hand · individualism · property rights · profit motive · competition
stocks
Ownership stakes or inventory
equity · shareholders · assets · angel investors · seed funding · IPO · securities · leverage · speculation · stake
factories
Industrial production facilities
- manufacturingIndustrial product creation
- productionMaking or generating something
- assembly lineSequential workstation manufacturing
industrial revolution · automation · mass production · mechanization · steel · textiles · railroads · labor · workers · exploitation
- bourgeoisiemiddle class, petit bourgeois, shop owners, shopkeepers, merchants
- class struggleclass conflict, class warfare, class divide, class struggle, class consciousness
- tycoonsoil tycoon, tycoons, railroad tycoon, John Rockefeller, magnates
- free marketersAdam Smith, Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, free traders, laissez-faire
- Political Factionsconservatives, Republicans, right wing, far right, hard right
- Anti-Communistsdefectors, dissidents, counterrevolutionaries, freedom fighters, Joseph McCarthy
capitalistscommunists
Collective ownership advocates
socialists · Marxists · collectivists · anti-capitalists · Bolsheviks
capitalistsworkers
People doing jobs
proletarians · the proletariat · laborers · the working class · wage earners
- venture capitalistsStartup equity investors
- global capitalismInternational private ownership system
- crony capitalismEconomy favoring the connected
- vulture capitalistInvestor exploiting failing businesses
- capitalist societyEconomy built on private ownership
- late capitalismMature market-dominated era
capitalism, capitalist, capitalistic, anticapitalism, anticapitalist, capitalise, capitalised, capitalising, capitalises