post-capitalist
Beyond private ownership
Post-capitalist describes economic or social systems imagined to follow capitalism's decline or replacement.
The term appears in political theory and futurism, covering everything from socialist alternatives to tech-utopian visions where automation renders traditional markets obsolete: a post-capitalist economy based on universal basic income.
The prefix signals something beyond capitalism without specifying what replaces it.
Shared community resources
- cooperativeJointly operated enterprise
- post-scarcityEconomy without resource limits
- decentralizationDistributing power from center
- localizationAdapting for specific markets
degrowth · steady-state · resource-based · barter · usufruct · stewardship · sufficiency · reciprocity
Communal economic control
- communismCollective ownership system
- anarchismPhilosophy rejecting state authority
- MarxismClass-based revolutionary philosophy
- collectivismGroup primacy doctrine
syndicalism · mutualism · communalism · eco-socialism · degrowth
Relating to ecosystems
- regenerativeAble to renew itself
- permacultureSustainable ecosystem design method
- steady-stateCondition of constant balance
- degrowthIntentional economic contraction movement
bioregionalism · solarpunk · low-impact · sufficiency · conservation · rewilding · carbon-neutral · circular
Imagined perfect society
- prefigurativeForeshadowing through present form
- transitionChange from one state
- transformationThorough change in form
- abolitionFormal discontinuation of practice
liberation · emancipation · reimagining · alternatives · experimentation · interstitial
Self-operating system design
- self-managementGoverning oneself independently
- leisureFree time for relaxation
- job-sharingSplitting one role between two
- craftSkilled manual art
Unity among allies
- cooperationJoint action toward shared aims
- egalitarianismPhilosophy of universal equality
- equityImpartial treatment or ownership value
- reciprocityMutual exchange of actions
anti-consumerism · sufficiency · conviviality · well-being · community · interdependence · care · trust
Involving active contribution
- consensusGeneral group agreement
- assemblyConstructing from components
- federationUnion of semi-autonomous states
- decentralizationDistributing power from center
grassroots · self-governance · stateless · council · delegate · recall · deliberation · subsidiarity
commons
Shared community resources
- cooperativeJointly operated enterprise
- post-scarcityEconomy without resource limits
- decentralizationDistributing power from center
localization · degrowth · steady-state · resource-based · barter · usufruct · stewardship · sufficiency · reciprocity
socialism
Communal economic control
- communismCollective ownership system
- anarchismPhilosophy rejecting state authority
- MarxismClass-based revolutionary philosophy
collectivism · syndicalism · mutualism · communalism · eco-socialism · degrowth
ecological
Relating to ecosystems
- regenerativeAble to renew itself
- permacultureSustainable ecosystem design method
- steady-stateCondition of constant balance
degrowth · bioregionalism · solarpunk · low-impact · sufficiency · conservation · rewilding · carbon-neutral · circular · zero-waste
utopia
Imagined perfect society
- prefigurativeForeshadowing through present form
- transitionChange from one state
- transformationThorough change in form
abolition · liberation · emancipation · reimagining · alternatives · experimentation · interstitial
automation
Self-operating system design
- self-managementGoverning oneself independently
- leisureFree time for relaxation
- job-sharingSplitting one role between two
craft · artisanal · deskilling · commoning
solidarity
Unity among allies
- cooperationJoint action toward shared aims
- egalitarianismPhilosophy of universal equality
- equityImpartial treatment or ownership value
reciprocity · anti-consumerism · sufficiency · conviviality · well-being · community · interdependence · care · trust · sharing
participatory
Involving active contribution
- consensusGeneral group agreement
- assemblyConstructing from components
- federationUnion of semi-autonomous states
decentralization · grassroots · self-governance · stateless · council · delegate · recall · deliberation · subsidiarity · polycentric
post-capitalistcapitalist
Private ownership supporter
laissez-faire · free-market · neoliberal · late-capitalist · industrial capitalism
post-capitalistfree-market
Unregulated private exchange
neoliberal · laissez-faire · deregulated · privatized · commodified
post-capitalistcapitalist
Private ownership supporter
free-market · neoliberal · libertarian · Thatcherite · Reaganomics
capital, capitalism, capitalist, capitalize, capitulate, capitalization, capitalists, decapitate, capitalistic