supercapitalism

English

Etymology

From super- +‎ capitalism.

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Noun

supercapitalism (uncountable)

1. (capitalism) Any especially intense and competitive form of capitalism.

   Synonym: hypercapitalism

   Coordinate term: late capitalism

   • 2007 September 2, Stephen Kotkin, “Dangers of a Turbocharged Economy”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Together, newly powerful shoppers and shareholders of this supercapitalism drove a decline in labor unions and a frenzy by corporations desperate to buy some market advantage in Washington.

2. (historical) A form of degenerated capitalism according to Italian fascism.
   • 2014, Peter Murphy, Eduardo de la Fuente, editors, Aesthetic Capitalism, BRILL, →ISBN, page 35:

     When Lenin spoke about “a series of exclusions from freedom” which individuals and “capitalists” enjoy in what he called “democratism”, he was not very far away from Mussolini's rejection of “supercapitalism” which according to him meant the degeneration of “heroic and dynamic capitalism.”

Further reading

• supercapitalism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia