postcapitalist

See also: post-capitalist

English

Alternative forms

• post-capitalist

Etymology

From post- +‎ capitalist.

Adjective

postcapitalist (not comparable)

1. After capitalism.
   • 2014 November 2, Paul Mason, “What Shakespeare taught me about Marxism”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Put it like this and it is not hard to see the possibility of a “post-capitalist” era – although the inability to see a path to it is what blights all modern social movements.

   • 2022 September 9, Justin McCurry, “‘A new way of life’: the Marxist, post-capitalist, green manifesto captivating Japan”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     As the world confronts more evidence of the effects of climate change – from floods in Pakistan to heatwaves in Britain – rampant inflation and the energy crisis, [Kohei] Saito’s vision of a more sustainable, post-capitalist world will appear in an academic text to be published next year by Cambridge University Press, with an English translation of his bestseller to follow.

Related terms

• postcapitalism
• postcapitalistic

 

Translations

after capitalism

• Hungarian: posztkapitalista

Noun

postcapitalist (plural postcapitalists)

1. A proponent of postcapitalism.
   • 2018 September 12, Jeff Goodell, “The Perfect Storm: How Climate Change and Wall Street Almost Killed Puerto Rico”, in Rolling Stone‎^[3]:

     You can spin out various possible futures for the island: In one version, disaster capitalists and bitcoin entrepreneurs arrive in their yachts and private jets, turning Puerto Rico into a crypto St. Barts; in another, post-capitalists build a paradise powered by solar microgrids, community gardens and the rebirth of local fisheries; […]