supercapitalism

noun — 2 senses

supercapitalism

noun

Etymology From super- + capitalism.

1

Any especially intense and competitive form of capitalism.

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.2007 September 2, Stephen Kotkin, “Dangers of a Turbocharged Economy”, in New York Times:

2

Dated A form of degenerated capitalism.

Italian fascism

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.”2014, Peter Murphy, Eduardo de la Fuente, editors, Aesthetic Capitalism, BRILL, →ISBN, page 35:

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