The phrase "capitalist regime" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to talk about a political or economic system that is characterized by private ownership of resources and production. For example, "The new government introduced a capitalist regime, with a strong emphasis on free market principles".
But they refer to the government as a capitalist regime and condemn pro-democracy politicians who support change as "bourgeois".
That broke the spine of the Western capitalist regime," he said, in a testament to his own delusions.
"We now have a rotten capitalist regime and rotten corrupt capitalists," said Rifaat el-Saed, chairman of Egypt's leftist Tagammu Party.
In the east, however, the message was uplifting, couched in the myth that the Germans of the communist state had resisted Hitler's capitalist regime.
He announced: "It is within the power of dynamite to destroy the capitalist regime just as it had been within the power of gunpowder and the rifle to wipe feudalism from the face of the earth.
The irony, as the author points out, is that a big intrusive state is often the plutocrat's best friend, whether it's a state capitalist regime such as China or the protectionist capitalism of the west.
For the people of the Middle East, they only favour democracy if it can help legitimise liberal capitalist regimes.
Today's resurgence of illiberal state capitalist regimes and leaders is nowhere close to inciting a war, because centre-right and centre-left governments still committed to liberal democracy, enlightened economic policies, and solid welfare systems still rule most of Europe.
I suppose, then, what we must be living through is a "post-capitalist" regime.
The state-capitalist regime, flush with cash, licenses media corporations that depend on public contracts; it doesn't have to censor them, because they censor themselves.
Yale does still honor the memory of someone who tried to subvert a state-capitalist regime corrupted by multinational corporations: Nathan Hale of the Class of 1773, was caught spying on British troop movements and was hanged by officers of the empire after saying, "I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country".
