capitalism (kapitalizm)

[ The sense of capitalism sobered and dignified Paul de Florac. Thackeray , New comes, xlvi. 2. The concentration or ma ing of capital in the hands of a few; also, the power or influence of large or combined capital. Industry is carried on by the concentration of large sums of capital; it is there [in England] that capitalism has developed most largely, and has thus prepared the causes of its own destruction. Orpen , tr. of Lavelaye's Socialism, p. 209. The working-men find the journals out of sympathy with their aims and aspirations, and have learnt to regard them as hopele ly subservient to what they call capital ism . N. A. Rev. , CXLIII. 312.