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precapitalism

noun

Etymology

From pre- + capitalism.

  1. derived from *kap-✻
  2. derived from *káput✻
  3. borrowed from capitalisme — “the condition of one who is rich”
  4. prefixed as precapitalism — “pre + capitalism”

Definitions

  1. Primitive systems of trade before the full development of capitalism.

    • The state farm and its administration operated under a model of paternalism that had its roots in the Soviet belief that northern indigenous peoples were like naive children in the primitive state of precapitalism.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA