Capitalist 5731 215349116 2008-05-27T20:26:41Z Will Beback 737021 Reverted edits by [[Special:Contributions/Wotring3|Wotring3]] ([[User talk:Wotring3|talk]]) to last version by Chendy {{main|capitalism}} {{wiktionary|capitalist}} * The word '''Capitalist''' was originally minted by [[William Thackeray]] in the sense of one who owns capital, and was more precisely defined by [[Karl Marx]] in [[Das Kapital]] as one who owned working capital including machinery and made money by letting others work on those machines. Being a capitalist in this original sense does not necessarily mean that one supports capitalism. * A '''Capitalist''' has more recently come to refer to someone who supports [[Capitalism]] or a [[free market]] [[ideology]]. * Very recently a '''Risk Capitalist''' has come to be used as an equivalent to a [[Venture Capital]]ist. {{disambig}}