رأسمالية
الرأسمالية، وتعرف أيضاً باسم التَمَوّل، هي نظام اقتصادي يقوم على الملكية الخاصة لوسائل الإنتاج وخلق السلع والخدمات من أجل الربح. تشمل الخصائص الرئيسية للرأسمالية الملكية الخاصة وتراكم رأس المال والعمل المأجور والأسواق التنافسية.
قائمة العصور الزمنية
But according to Marx, capitalism, like slave society and feudalism, also has critical failings — inner contradictions which will lead to its downfall. The working class, to which the capitalist class gave birth in order to produce commodities and profits, is the "grave digger" of capitalism. The worker is not paid the full value of what he or she produces. The rest is surplus value — the capitalist's profit, which Marx calls the "unpaid labour of the working class." The capitalists are forced by competition to attempt to drive down the wages of the working class to increase their profits, and this creates conflict between the classes, and gives rise to the development of class consciousness in the working class. The working class, through trade union and other struggles, becomes conscious of itself as an exploited class. In the view of classical Marxism, the struggles of the working class against the attacks of the capitalist class will eventually lead the working class to establish its own collective control over production