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Political-economic argument
"Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor" is a classical political-economic argument asserting that, in advanced capitalist societies, state
Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor
Socialism_for_the_rich_and_capitalism_for_the_poor
Government grants, tax breaks, or other special favorable treatment for corporations
Abrams in the housing field Stein, Sam (March 18, 2010). "Biden On The Bailout: 'Socialism For The Rich And Capitalism For The Poor'". The Huffington
Corporate_welfare
Government subsidies to failing firms
Leyland Corporate welfare Crony capitalism Gresham's law Regulatory capture Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor Too big to fail Zombie company
Lemon_socialism
Aphorism due to Percy Bysshe Shelley
markets Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor Status-income disequilibrium Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1909–14). A Defence of Poetry (from the Harvard
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer
The_rich_get_richer_and_the_poor_get_poorer
American urban planner (1901–1970)
credited with coining the phrase 'Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor.' Abrams was born in Vilna, Poland as the youngest of four children in
Charles_Abrams
Musk described himself as "cash poor". Musk's net worth has been volatile. It dropped $16.3bn on September 8, 2020, the largest single-day plunge in Bloomberg
Wealth_of_Elon_Musk
Abundance of financial assets or possessions
In his best-seller Rich Dad Poor Dad, Japanese-American entrepreneur Robert Kiyosaki writes that emotions, especially fear and greed, forever control
Wealth
Concept in sociology and economy
when financialisation is low as the emulation effect is weak, and the rich tend to save at a higher rate than the poor. The effect of inequality on savings
Conspicuous_consumption
and above. Excluding royal dynasties and land-owning aristocracy, the wealthiest families since the emergence of banking and early capitalism in the Italian
List_of_wealthiest_families
economics Saltwater and freshwater economics Schools of economic thought Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor State capitalism Corporate welfare
Actually_existing_capitalism
Person who has at least one trillion units of a currency
Archive. And thus Sir John sees clearly that to whip the poor wretches now will be, as a first "benefit," to enable him to exact higher ground-rents for 99
Trillionaire
Philosophical topic
the root source of poverty, the sin in question being exploitative capitalism and class war by the rich against the poor. In the United States, the Social
Religious_views_on_capitalism
Pejorative term for a perceived overbearing government or public sector
socialism Managerial state Night-watchman state Small government Social engineering (political science) Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the
Big_government
the United States Racism in the United States Second Bill of Rights Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor Socio-economic mobility in the
Income inequality in the United States
Income_inequality_in_the_United_States
(gross inequality) and its cause ("special tax treatment for the [extremely rich]"), and specific "ways to rebalance the tax code and put the economy on a better
Wealth inequality in the United States
Wealth_inequality_in_the_United_States
Type of socialist philosophy
identify the cause of social inequality to be the greed that they associate with capitalism. Christian socialism became a major movement in the United Kingdom
Christian_socialism
Social and economic model in Nordic countries
in the early 1980s faced a pivotal choice between capitalism and the transition to socialism. In the discourse focused upon its nagging problems of international
Nordic_model
Dominant post-WWII post-industrial global economy
Werner Sombart and National Socialism". Working Papers in Economics. See for example: Werner Sombart, The Jews and modern capitalism Kitchener: Batoche
Late_capitalism
Political philosophy emphasising social ownership of production
By the late 19th century, after the work of Karl Marx and his collaborator Friedrich Engels, socialism had come to signify anti-capitalism and advocacy
Socialism
Political and economic philosophy
slavery, and "socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor" as well as a counter-argument to the culture of capitalism, trickle-down economics, and rugged
Economic_progressivism
Type of business leader
whereby the more and more overflowing Population is worse and worse governed (shown what to do, for that is the only government): thus is the candle lighted
Captain_of_industry
Comedy by Aristophanes
presents himself and his family as virtuous but poor, and has accordingly gone to seek advice from an oracle. The play begins as he returns to Athens from Delphi
Plutus_(play)
support for socialism in the United States. The poll results stated that 53% of American adults thought capitalism was better than socialism and that "[a]dults
Socialism in the United States
Socialism_in_the_United_States
Arguments against the economic system of capitalism
Post-capitalism Social criticism Social democracy Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor Technological fix § Concerns The Big One The Theory
Criticism_of_capitalism
Book by Michael Novak
growth of democratic capitalism, modern socialism has contracted from a robust utopian program into vague "idealism about equality" and overwrought criticism
The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism
The_Spirit_of_Democratic_Capitalism
Ideology merging aspects of socialism with green politics, ecology and alter-globalization
that do not confront capitalism's structural failures. Eco-socialists advocate for the succession of capitalism by eco-socialism—an egalitarian
Eco-socialism
History of fascist ideology
arguing that "capitalism would flourish best if Italy discarded democracy and accepted dictatorship as necessary in order to crush socialism and make government
Fascism_and_ideology
Person who has at least one billion units of a currency
countries in which nearly half of respondents said the rich often buy elections in their country; the report also counted 142 anti-government protests across
Billionaire
Society controlled by business corporations
the degree of involvement of corporations in the political and social sphere, for example: Crony capitalism, in which corporations obtain favors and privileges
Corporatocracy
Economic system based on private ownership
Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and its use for the purpose of obtaining profit. This socioeconomic
Capitalism
Socialist economic-political system
illiberal form of state socialism, often referred to and conflated as socialism by critics and argued as a form of state capitalism by left-wing critics
Authoritarian_socialism
Concept introduced by Benito Mussolini in a speech in 1933
non-existent, or inefficient may the State intervene." Corporatocracy Crony capitalism Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor Corporate welfare Managerial
Supercapitalism
Policies to centralize wealth and power
20 years of global wealth demolishes the myth of 'trickle-down' and shows the rich are taking most of the gains for themselves". Business Insider. Retrieved
Accumulation_by_dispossession
1919 book by Oswald Spengler
Spengler accused Marxism of following the British tradition in which the poor envy the rich, stating: "The socialism of a Fichte would accuse [those who
Prussianism_and_Socialism
Political and socioeconomic ideology
recognized the need for money and prices at least during the transition from capitalism to socialism, socialists more commonly believed that the socialist
Communism
Distribution of income or wealth between different groups
Jason; Sullivan, Dylan (July 1, 2023). "Capitalism, Global Poverty, and the Case for Democratic Socialism". Monthly Review. Retrieved July 22, 2025
Economic_inequality
1962 book by Michael Harrington
public schools and healthcare system. Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor Two Americas Potts, Monica (Spring 2014). "The Other Americans"
The_Other_America
Capitalism featuring undue alliances between business interests and politicians
of how economic reforms turned crony socialism into crony capitalism, making the poor poorer and the connected rich fantastically wealthier." Daniel Matamala
Crony_capitalism
Political strategy for implementing socialism
theory, socialism is projected to emerge in the most developed capitalist economies, where capitalism suffers the greatest internal contradictions and class
State_socialism
1891 encyclical issued by Pope Leo XIII
the extremes of state socialism and laissez-faire capitalism. A foundational text of modern Catholic social teaching, many of the positions in Rerum novarum
Rerum_novarum
Criticism of socialism is any critique of socialist economics and socialist models of organization and their feasibility, as well as the political and social
Criticism_of_socialism
Interest in democratic socialism among Americans
2019). "More Americans aged between 18 and 24 prefer 'socialism' to 'capitalism'". Axios. Archived from the original on June 5, 2021. Retrieved June
Millennial_socialism
Inequality between nations' wealth
theories. This concept demonstrates how the gap between the poor and the rich in the global world is persistent, if not steadily increasing. There are
International_inequality
Three-volume work by Karl Marx, 1867–1894
text, providing a theoretical basis for the critique of capitalism and the struggle for socialism. In Britain, the explicitly Marxist Social Democratic
Das_Kapital
The history of socialism has its origins in the Age of Enlightenment and the French Revolution, along with their aftermaths, although it has precedents
History_of_socialism
Socialist political movement in Uganda
the whole, the split in the Cabinet between leftists and rightists completely neutralised all efforts for the 'Move to the Left'. The word socialism was
Move_to_the_Left
Set of views forming an ideology on the economy
(1994). The Failure of Political Islam. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-29141-6. Joseph A. Schumpeter, 1942. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Economic_ideology
German fascist ideology
The term "National Socialism" arose from attempts to create a nationalist alternative to Marxist socialism and free-market capitalism. Nazism rejected Marxist
Nazism
Type of socialist philosophy
Office for the Cooperation of the People with the President Party of the Iranian People Islam portal Socialism portal Arab socialism Capitalism and Islam
Islamic_socialism
Ideology developed by Deng Xiaoping
those he deemed as the ideologues of the Cultural Revolution for seeking "poor socialism" and "poor communism" and believing that communism was a "spiritual
Deng_Xiaoping_Theory
1992 agreement between communist and socialist parties
embellish capitalism and patronise the old order. The setback of socialism and the revival of capitalism in some countries is causing a great loss to the achievement
Pyongyang_Declaration
Ownership of the means of production by society
for social ownership and socialism is not based on any moral critique of the distribution of property income (wealth) in capitalism, but rather on a systematic
Social_ownership
Economic theory promoting local control
many influences on the social market economy. Distributism views laissez-faire capitalism and state socialism as equally flawed and exploitative, due to
Distributism
Catholic social teaching on the well-being of the poor
The option for the poor, or the preferential option for the poor, is a Catholic social teaching that the Bible gives priority to the well-being of the
Option_for_the_poor
Different opinions that Christians have held about material riches
social and political ideologies both of the left and of the right: liberalism, communism, socialism, libertarianism, capitalism, Fascism, and Nazism have
Christian views on poverty and wealth
Christian_views_on_poverty_and_wealth
American lawyer and commentator (born 1988)
and has written on issues including income distribution, taxation, welfare, elections, the Nordic model, and funds socialism. Bruenig advocates for mass
Matt_Bruenig
2009 documentary film by Michael Moore
claim that the tenets of capitalism are compatible with Christianity, arguing that the rich ignore religion when it comes to the poor, sick and disadvantaged
Capitalism:_A_Love_Story
Argentine ideology
which praised socialism and condemned capitalism for "subjecting man to the economy and subordinating social to economic values". One of the key characters
Tendencia_Revolucionaria
Marxist concept
the backward nature of Russia's economy and that the proletarian state could limit the worst tendencies of capitalism. Lenin believed that socialism was
Socialist_state_(communism)
Economic anthropologist (born 1982)
inequality, and ecological economics. He is a prominent proponent of the degrowth movement and a critic of capitalism, neocolonialism and the use of GDP
Jason_Hickel
1906 novel by Lope K. Santos
issues such as socialism, capitalism, and the works of the united associations of laborers. Although a work that discusses politics in the Philippines,
Banaag_at_Sikat
Political philosophy incorporating liberal principles to socialism
While advocating socialism, Lulism aims for a 'social liberal' approach that gradually resolves the gap between the rich and the poor in a market-oriented
Liberal_socialism
Concept in political and social science
2025). "Marx and Communal Society". Monthly Review. Vol. 77, no. 3. "Understanding Marxism: Differences vs. Communism, Socialism, Capitalism". Investopedia
Class_struggle
Political party in the United Kingdom
declared personal wealth, while the poorer 50 per cent of the population own less than one-tenth of it. Moreover, capitalism has always utilised differences
Communist_Party_of_Britain
Capitalist appropriation and assimilation of sexual diversity
capitalism (also called pink capitalism, queer capitalism, homocapitalism or gay capitalism) is the involvement of capitalism, corporate capitalism,
Rainbow_capitalism
Political party in Italy
compromise with the unjust and oppressive capitalist world, in a party with rich and poor, capitalists and workers are always the poor to be worse. We
Social Christian Party (Italy)
Social_Christian_Party_(Italy)
Political philosophy
revolution, leading to the overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of a socialist mode of production. For Marxists, this transition represents a
Marxism
Hong Kong businessman
and has opposed development of public housing on land it leases from the government, saying "A feature of capitalism is a gap between rich and poor.
Shih_Wing-ching
Political ideologies favouring egalitarianism
typically reserved for movements more critical of capitalism, including the labour movement, socialism, anarchism, communism, Marxism, Leninism and syndicalism
Left-wing_politics
Social doctrine of the Catholic Church
and political ideologies of the left and of the right, such as liberalism, atheistic forms of socialism and communism, anarchism, atheism, capitalism
Catholic_social_teaching
American political party
Philadelphia, who chanted "fight the rich and feed the poor!" When Elon Musk replied with "!" to a video of this on X, the RCA said "billionaires are parasites"
Revolutionary Communists of America
Revolutionary_Communists_of_America
British physician, social critic, and Ricardian socialist
critic and Ricardian socialist who published The Effects of Civilization on the People in European States in 1805, condemning capitalism for its inability
Charles_Hall_(economist)
Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their use for obtaining profit. It includes features such
History_of_capitalism
Walter Benjamin's unfinished work
unconscious mirrors capitalism's repressed forces, Nietzsche’s doctrine intensifies guilt rather than resolving it; and Marx’s socialism inherits the guilt-driven
Capitalism_as_Religion
that workers would become poorer due to capitalism's insoluble contradictions, oppression of workers and oppressed class mold, and profit-based structure
Crisis_of_Marxism
Political theory developed by Vladimir Lenin
commitment to the successful overthrow of capitalism, and then to instituting socialism; and, as the revolutionary national government, to realise the socio-economic
Leninism
Dynamic that motivates pursuit of profit
this cyclical process would be the fundamental cause for the dissolution of capitalism and its replacement by socialism, which would operate according
Capital_accumulation
the period of collaboration. Christian Democracy built power centers in every area in Italy, from urban to rural, rich to poor. Meanwhile, socialism and
Socialism_in_Italy
praised the development of the welfare state as challenging capitalism and declared its opposition to Bolshevik communism. It declared that socialism was
Frankfurt_Declaration
American philosopher and theologian
by socialism. Nash agrees with the first claim, but argues that attacking capitalism and seeing it replaced by socialism will achieve precisely the opposite
Ronald_H._Nash
Marxist notion
Archived from the original on 2018-01-08. Retrieved 2018-01-08. "Marxism: What It Is and Comparison to Communism, Socialism, and Capitalism". Investopedia
Neocolonial_dependence
Form of socialism based on religious values
Religious socialism is a type of socialism based on religious values and religious worldviews. Members of several major religions have found that their
Religious_socialism
Political philosophy
of socialism like state-owned enterprises, and are argued to resemble closer social democracy than free-market capitalism.[citation needed] For the Islamic
Redistribution of income and wealth
Redistribution_of_income_and_wealth
Theme and branding of the British Labour Party adopted by the party in 2012
of socialism, with Miliband declaring support for a form of "capitalism that works for the people" while declaring support for a "form of socialism, which
One_Nation_Labour
American filmmaker and author (born 1954)
George W. Bush, and Donald Trump, the Iraq War, the American health care system, and capitalism overall. In 2005, Time named Moore one of the world's 100
Michael_Moore
1994 book by Eric Hobsbawm
sees as the disastrous failures of state socialism, capitalism, and nationalism; he offers an equally sceptical take on the progress of the arts and changes
The_Age_of_Extremes
2012 book by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
(Published 2012)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-11-24. Schumpeter, Joseph A. (1942). Capitalism, socialism, and democracy. Radford
Why_Nations_Fail
German polymath (1880–1936)
said, "The meaning of socialism is that life is controlled not by the opposition between rich and poor, but by the rank that achievement and talent bestow
Oswald_Spengler
American sociologist (1806–1881)
slavery in the American South with capitalism in the Northern United States, decrying the latter as "a war of the rich with the poor, and the poor with one
George_Fitzhugh
Austrian (later American) political economist (1883–1950)
is considered to be Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. Schumpeter was born in 1883 in Triesch, Habsburg Moravia (now Třešť in the Czech Republic, then
Joseph_Schumpeter
Political party in Poland
on social justice and support of the most underprivileged, especially the poor and the homeless. It vehemently opposes capitalism which it described
Social_Justice_Movement
the ideas of capitalism in favour of a more afrocentric economic model. Leaders of this period professed that they were practising "African socialism"
African_socialism
Form of communism based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ
replacing capitalism with socialism, which should in turn be followed by communism at a later point in the future. The young Louis Althusser and Denys Turner
Christian_communism
Set of policies and ideals from Xi Jinping
outdated, nor is the historical materialist view that capitalism is bound to die out and socialism is bound to win." Xi also stated: "The fundamental reason
Xi_Jinping_Thought
development and polarization, and widened the gap between rich and poor. These contradictions will lead to the inevitable demise of capitalism and the resultant
Ideology of the Chinese Communist Party
Ideology_of_the_Chinese_Communist_Party
Argentine revolutionary (1928–1967)
their attempt to "air-brush the inherent violence of class struggle integral to the transition from capitalism to socialism", their "dangerous" policy
Che_Guevara
Socialism based on the principles of Buddhism
socialism emerged in the 19th and 20th centuries in various Asian nations as a response to colonialism, imperialism and the rise of global capitalism
Buddhist_socialism
2001 book by John Rawls
Welfare-state capitalism State socialism with a command economy Property-owning democracy Liberal socialism Rawls holds that the first three "[violate] the two
Justice as Fairness: A Restatement
Justice_as_Fairness:_A_Restatement
1921 film
unbearable for Mary. The wife also becomes disgusted with the idle life her husband leads. Then a baby is born to them. Phillip goes on a camping trip, and while
Wealth_(film)
Group perspectives regarding Marxism
especially of capitalism as well as the role of class struggles in systemic, economic, social and political change. It frames capitalism through a paradigm
Marxist_schools_of_thought
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Male
Scandinavian
 Scandinavian form of Old Norse Þórr, TOR means "Thor" or "thunder." Compare with other forms of Tor.
Boy/Male
British, English, German, Norse, Teutonic
Lord; A Variant of the Name Ifor
Female
Greek
 Short form of Greek and Latin Dorothea, THEA means "gift of God." Compare with another form of Thea.
Surname or Lastname
English (mainly East Anglia)
English (mainly East Anglia) : topographic name for someone who lived by a common pasture, Middle English tye (Old English tēag).North German : from a short form, Tide, of the personal name Dietrich.
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, English, French, German
Rich and Powerful Ruler; Form of Richard; Powerful; Old Leader; Dominant Ruler; Powerful and Brave Ruler
Girl/Female
Greek American
Goddess; godly. Also as abbreviation of names like Althea and Dorothea. The mythological Thea was...
Boy/Male
English
From the enclosure.
Male
English
Short form of English Richard, RICH means "powerful ruler."
Male
English
English surname transferred to forename use, derived from the Middle English word tye, TYE means "pasture."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived near a ford, Middle English, Old English ford, or a habitational name from one of the many places named with this word, such as Ford in Northumberland, Shropshire, and West Sussex, or Forde in Dorset.Irish : Anglicized form (quasi-translation) of various Gaelic names, for example Mac Giolla na Naomh ‘son of Gilla na Naomh’ (a personal name meaning ‘servant of the saints’), Mac Conshámha ‘son of Conshnámha’ (a personal name composed of the elements con ‘dog’ + snámh ‘to swim’), in all of which the final syllable was wrongly thought to be áth ‘ford’, and Ó Fuar(th)áin (see Foran).Jewish : Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames.Translation of German Fürth (see Furth).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Rich.French : nickname for a rich man or perhaps an ironical name for a pauper, from Old French riche ‘rich’.
Surname or Lastname
English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : variant of Tye.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname for a wealthy man (or perhaps in some cases an ironic nickname for a pauper), from Middle English, Old French riche ‘rich’, ‘wealthy’ (of Germanic origin, akin to Germanic rīc ‘power(ful)’).English : from a medieval personal name, a short form of Richard, or less commonly of some other compound name with this first element.English : habitational name from the lost village of Riche in Lincolnshire, apparently so named from an Old English element ric ‘stream’ or, here, ‘drainage channel’. Some early forms of the surname, such as Ricardus de la riche (Hampshire 1200) and Alexander atte Riche (Sussex 1296) probably derive from minor places named with this element in southern counties, as for example Glynde Reach in Sussex.Americanized form of German Reich.
Girl/Female
Shakespearean
The Merry Wives of Windsor' Mistress Ford.
Male
English
Short form of English Theodore, THEO means "gift of God," and other names beginning with Theo-.
Male
English
English surname transferred to forename use, from the Old English word ford, FORD means "ford, river crossing."
Female
German
Pet form of German Kätharina, KÄTHE means "pure."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname from the animal, Middle English, Old English fox. It may have denoted a cunning individual or been given to someone with red hair or for some other anecdotal reason. This relatively common and readily understood surname seems to have absorbed some early examples of less transparent surnames derived from the Germanic personal names mentioned at Faulks and Foulks.Irish : part translation of Gaelic Mac an tSionnaigh ‘son of the fox’ (see Tinney).Jewish (American) : translation of the Ashkenazic Jewish surname Fuchs.Americanized spelling of Focks, a North German patronymic from the personal name Fock (see Volk).Americanized spelling of Fochs, a North German variant of Fuchs, or in some cases no doubt a translation of Fuchs itself.
Surname or Lastname
English, French, and Catalan
English, French, and Catalan : nickname from Old French, Middle English, Catalan fort, ‘strong’, ‘brave’ (Latin fortis). In some cases it may be from the Latin personal name derived from this word; this was borne by an obscure saint whose cult was popular during the Middle Ages in southern and southwestern France.English and French : topographic name for someone who lived near a fortress or stronghold, or an occupational name for someone employed in one. Compare Fortier 1.Czech (Fořt) : variant of Forst.
Female
English
 Pet form of English Theodora, THEA means "gift of God." Compare with another form of Thea.
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