postcapitalist means after capitalism. It carries an Arena rating of 967, earned across 216 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, postcapitalist ranks #4,779 of 17,128 for Most Ponderous Words, #8,798 of 17,128 for Words That Escaped Their Books, #9,082 of 17,124 for Most Sublime Words, #11,522 of 17,136 for Most Malleable Words.
Why “postcapitalist” is a great word
POSTCAPITALIST — [Adjective] Relating to or characteristic of a period, society, or system that comes after or seeks to move beyond capitalism. From the English prefix post- (meaning "after") + capitalist (from capital, ultimately from Latin caput, "head"). Unlike "anticapitalist," which denotes a stance of active opposition, or "noncapitalist," which neutrally describes an absence, "postcapitalist" implies a historical succession, a landscape built upon transformed foundations. It is the ghost of a stock exchange repurposed as a communal garden, the quiet hum of machinery no longer tuned to profit, and the hand-mended garment in a world of depleted fast fashion—a vision not of negation, but of an aftermath whose shape is still emerging from the fog.
Etymology
From post- + capitalist.
adj
- After capitalism.e.g.“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.” — 2014 November 2, Paul Mason, “What Shakespeare taught me about Marxism”, in The Guardian:
noun
- A proponent of postcapitalism.
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