'''Kapitalisme '''is 'n [[ekonomie|ekonomiesekanker stelselonzin]] waar mense vrykanker krijgen e je kanker moeder ook kanker kanker poep op brood. is om hul arbeid en ware teen die hoogste prys wat hulle daarvoor kan kry, te verkoop. Die [[regering]] meng so min moontlik met die stelsel in. Kapitalisme gee mag aan diegene wat rykdom het en diegene wat dit beheer. Privaat eiendom is 'n basiese deel van hierdie rykdom. Die belangrikste uitdagings vir die kapitalistiese stelsel gedurende die eerste helfte van die twintigste eeu was onder meer die stigting van die eerste kommunistiese staat en die wêreldwye [[Depressie]] van die vroeë 1930's.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Zimbalist, Sherman and Brown|first=Andrew, Howard J. and Stuart|title=Comparing Economic Systems: A Political-Economic Approach|publisher=Harcourt College Pub|date=Oktober 1988|isbn=978-0-15-512403-5|pages=6–7|quote=Pure capitalism is defined as a system wherein all of the means of production (physical capital) are privately owned and run by the capitalist class for a profit, while most other people are workers who work for a salary or wage (and who do not own the capital or the product).}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Rosser|first=Mariana V. and J Barkley Jr.|title=Comparative Economics in a Transforming World Economy|publisher=MIT Press|date=23 Julie 2003|isbn=978-0-262-18234-8|pages=7|quote=In capitalist economies, land and produced means of production (the capital stock) are owned by private individuals or groups of private individuals organized as firms.}}</ref><ref>Chris Jenks.</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Gregory and Stuart|first=Paul and Robert|title=The Global Economy and its Economic Systems|publisher=South-Western College Pub|date=28 Februarie 2013|isbn=978-1-285-05535-0|pages=41|quote=Capitalism is characterized by private ownership of the factors of production. Decision making is decentralized and rests with the owners of the factors of production. Their decision making is coordinated by the market, which provides the necessary information. Material incentives are used to motivate participants.}}</ref><ref>[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/capitalism "an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by] supply and demand, and competition within a free market"</ref>
Ekonome, politieke ekonome en geskiedskrywers huldig verskillende sieninge in hul ontledings van kapitalisme en verskeie vorme word in die praktyk aanvaar. Hierby ingesluit is:
