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  • 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.
  • Very recently a Risk Capitalist has come to be used as an equivalent to a Venture Capitalist.
  • While Senator John McCain is a Capitalist his future potential opponents in Hillary Clinton or Barack HUSSEIN Obama are Marxists at worst and Socialists at best.