Capitalists
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capitalists · bank directors · capitalist class · employers · manufacturing capitalists · a body of directors · bankers · banking and manufacturing capitalists · capitalist land-owners · capitalist manufactory owners
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Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
Owners of manufactories and other large capital, identified as the class that actually collects the benefit of protecting-duty bounties.
Employers are called capitalists with great propriety, because more capital is necessary to establish a manufactory, than to employ ourselves in individual occupations.
The wealth of the owners of manufactories, having conferred upon them with great propriety, the title of capitalists, I cannot see the policy, wisdom or justice, of taxing the whole class even of the rich in all other occupations, to make them wealthier;
But I also contend, that capital is only useful and re-productive, when it is obtained by fair and honest industry;
Commercial Crises of the Nineteenth Century
The employing/owning class under capitalism who appropriate individually while workers produce socially; their competitive behaviour causes commercial crises
The capitalist class has virtually declared its own inability to conduct the business of the community.
From this time forward all improvements in machinery, and all the conquests of science as applied to the increase of wealth, have come into the hands of the employing class, who, by degrees, relieved themselves of all trade regulations and State or municipal restrictions, and went forward to capture and control new markets for their goods.
Not a few still maintain, also, that there is no antagonism between the labourers and the capitalists;
Economics of Socialism
The capitalist class, owners of the means of production and controllers of commodity production for profit.
The commodities are produced under the control of a particular class, namely, the capitalists, for profit;
in which all the means and instruments of production are in the hands of the capitalists and the workers have only their labour-power to sell!
The Law of Intellectual Property
Holders of capital who decline to fund inventors because of inadequate legal protection.
But when this prospect of large profits, in case of success, is cut off by the inadequate protection afforded to the property to be produced, and the brief period for which even that protection is afforded, there is no adequate security left, as a basis for investments.