kapitalistisen

Kapitalistinen is a Finnish adjective meaning related to capitalism or characteristic of capitalists. It is used to describe people, ideologies, policies, or systems that are associated with capitalism. The corresponding noun form for a capitalist person is kapitalisti, while the adjective can modify nouns to convey the related concept, for example kapitalistinen järjestelmä (capitalist system) or kapitalistinen politiikka (capitalist policy).

In Finnish, kapitalistinen declines like other adjectives. The form kapitalistisen is the genitive singular, as in kapitalistisen järjestelmän kriisi (the crisis of the capitalist system). The partitive form is kapitalistista, as in kapitalistista taloutta vastaan (against capitalist economy). The base form kapitalistinen can also appear in nominative position before a noun, for example kapitalistinen ideologia (capitalist ideology). The word is therefore a standard descriptive term that blends with Finnish grammar in a range of cases and numbers.

Etymology and usage context: kapitalistinen derives from kapitalismi, meaning capitalism, which in turn entered Finnish through European languages such as Swedish or German and was absorbed during industrial and political development. In contemporary discourse, kapitalistinen often appears in economic, political, and sociological texts. It can be used descriptively in neutral scholarship or critically in debates about market liberalization, inequality, and the role of private capital. The tone arising from its use depends on context and accompanying phrasing.