虽然各类工具书在介绍“资本主义”概念时都直接将其表征的经济生产方式至少追溯到15、16世纪,但事实上,该词直到19世纪后半叶才零星出现在一些学者的著作和论述中间。20世纪以后,该词在社会主义革命运动广泛兴起的背景下,作为“社会主义”的对立词汇得以广泛传播,成为人们普遍使用的基本概念。作为一个政治色彩浓厚的基本概念,“资本主义”最主要的使用领域是“政治—社会”领域。除此之外,“资本主义”概念还在学术界被广为使用。极强的知识生产功能是这一基本概念的重要特性,通过储存或者统摄其他概念和其诸多的衍生形式,以及在社会实践过程中的频繁使用,“资本主义”概念的基本含义不仅得以明确,也真正转化为一个人们不假思索便可脱口而出的词汇。 Although all kinds of tools directly tracing their economic means of production in the introduction of the concept of “capitalism” date back to at least the 15th and 16th centuries, in fact it did not appear sporadically in some scholars until the second half of the 19th century In the middle of the book and discussion. After the 20th century, under the background of the widespread rise of the socialist revolutionary movement, the term has been widely disseminated as the antithetical term of “socialism” and has become the basic concept commonly used by people. As a basic political concept, the most important field of use of “capitalism” is the “political-social” realm. In addition, the concept of “capitalism” is still widely used in academia. Strong knowledge production function is an important characteristic of this basic concept. The basic meaning of the concept of “capitalism” can not only be obtained by storing or mapping other concepts and their many derivative forms, as well as being frequently used in social practice Clear, but also truly translated into a word that people can blurt out without thinking.