state capitalismn.
/ˌsteɪt ˈkapᵻtl̩ɪz(ə)m/, /ˌsteɪt ˈkapᵻtəlɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌsteɪt ˈkæpədlˌɪzəm/ A political (esp. socialist) system in which the State exerts exclusive control over a substantial proportion of the means of production and the capital created by this. Cf. state capitalist adj. and n.
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Saint-Simonism1830
democratic socialism1848
social democracy1848
scientific socialism1849
utopian socialism1849
state socialism1851
societarianism1852
internationalism1871
state capitalism?1886
nationalism1889
Liberal-Labourism1905
champagne socialism1906
maximalism1909
guild-socialism1912
Popular Frontism1938
Saint-Simonianism1974
?1886 M. J. Salès Master-key Social Reform iv. 20 Their education and placement in life would be as good from the State as from their parents (on my system), except for businesses requiring capital (of which there would be few under State capitalism).
1903 D. Modell tr. P. Kropotkin Mod. Sci. & Anarchism x. 94 Anarchism cannot see in the next coming revolution a mere exchange of monetary symbols for labor-checks, or an exchange of present Capitalism for State-capitalism.
1928 E. Paul & C. Paul tr. J. Stalin Leninism I. 436 The left-wing communists were of opinion that State capitalism is incompatible with the system of the proletarian dictatorship.
1978 Ld. Hailsham Dilemma of Democracy xvii. 110 Modern capitalism is the state capitalism of the Coal Board, British Rail or the Post Office.
2010 A. Mackinnon & B. Powell China Counting xi. 166 China has to maintain the delicate balance between harnessing nationalism while not causing its people to revolt because of..overbearing state capitalism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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