Anti-capitalism
Opposition to capitalism. Since anti-capitalism covers a very wide collection of ideologies (some of which oppose each other more than they oppose capitalism), common objections to capitalism have been collected here, while specific objections are in the articles on specific ideologies.
Many different and opposite ideologies fight against capitalism:
- socialism argues for extensive state control of the economy, which may or may not be associated with extensive democratic control by the people over the state (socialism may be libertarian, authoritarian, or anything in between). Socialism also argues for a high degree of economic equality and the eradication of poverty and unemployment.
- fascism argues for a limited market economy, while emphasizing non-economic issues such as nationalism and obedience to authority as the solution to what the fascists see as the problems of capitalism.
- Marxism argues for collective ownership of the means of production, and the eventual overthrow of the state, with an intermediate stage in which the state will be used to eliminate the vestiges of capitalism. Marxism is the foundation of several different ideologies, including communism and certain types of socialism.
- anarchism argues for a total lack of state control and for a society based on voluntary co-operation. Its subset known as libertarian socialism (or "libertarian communism") argues for direct democratic and possibly federal worker control and ownership of the means of production in a communist economic context.
Some anti-capitalists may argue for a form of collectivism.
See also: Anti-globalization movement, Corporatocracy, WOMBLES
Referenced By
Civil and social disobedience | Deutsche Reich | Deutsches Reich | German Empire | Imperial Germany | Second Reich | We Get Restless
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