Criticism of capitalism

Criticism of capitalism - arguments against the economic system of capitalism. Article “Criticism of capitalism” in English Wikipedia has 89.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 276 references and 32 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.69 points.

This article has the best quality in Korean Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “Criticism of capitalism” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Criticism of capitalism”, its content was written by 386 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 867 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 961 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2816 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3382 in February 2022
• Global: #9248 in May 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #45769 in October 2011
• Global: #40902 in July 2013

There are 19 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Korean (ko) 자본주의에 대한 비판		98.0348
2	Polish (pl) Krytyka kapitalizmu		95.8844
3	English (en) Criticism of capitalism		89.1157
4	Portuguese (pt) Críticas ao capitalismo		78.5644
5	German (de) Kapitalismuskritik		68.7251
6	Chinese (zh) 对资本主义的批评		44.5145
7	Dutch (nl) Kritiek op het kapitalisme		43.9059
8	French (fr) Critiques du capitalisme		38.7719
9	Arabic (ar) نقد الرأسمالية		26.8742
10	Italian (it) Critiche al capitalismo		24.1572

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Criticism of capitalism" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Criticism of capitalism		2 084 450
2	German (de) Kapitalismuskritik		528 396
3	Spanish (es) Crítica del capitalismo		349 655
4	Portuguese (pt) Críticas ao capitalismo		132 058
5	French (fr) Critiques du capitalisme		87 413
6	Vietnamese (vi) Phê phán chủ nghĩa tư bản		61 338
7	Dutch (nl) Kritiek op het kapitalisme		25 530
8	Arabic (ar) نقد الرأسمالية		20 810
9	Chinese (zh) 对资本主义的批评		17 721
10	Indonesian (id) Kritik terhadap kapitalisme		13 120

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Criticism of capitalism" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Criticism of capitalism		9 651
2	German (de) Kapitalismuskritik		995
3	Spanish (es) Crítica del capitalismo		463
4	Portuguese (pt) Críticas ao capitalismo		419
5	Polish (pl) Krytyka kapitalizmu		329
6	French (fr) Critiques du capitalisme		291
7	Chinese (zh) 对资本主义的批评		213
8	Vietnamese (vi) Phê phán chủ nghĩa tư bản		152
9	Dutch (nl) Kritiek op het kapitalisme		131
10	Korean (ko) 자본주의에 대한 비판		111

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Criticism of capitalism" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Criticism of capitalism		386
2	German (de) Kapitalismuskritik		279
3	French (fr) Critiques du capitalisme		49
4	Spanish (es) Crítica del capitalismo		34
5	Portuguese (pt) Críticas ao capitalismo		21
6	Danish (da) Kapitalismekritik		16
7	Vietnamese (vi) Phê phán chủ nghĩa tư bản		16
8	Polish (pl) Krytyka kapitalizmu		14
9	Catalan (ca) Crítica del capitalisme		12
10	Chinese (zh) 对资本主义的批评		8

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Criticism of capitalism" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Criticism of capitalism		4
2	Korean (ko) 자본주의에 대한 비판		2
3	Polish (pl) Krytyka kapitalizmu		2
4	Persian (fa) نقد سرمایه‌داری		1
5	Italian (it) Critiche al capitalismo		1
6	Arabic (ar) نقد الرأسمالية		0
7	Catalan (ca) Crítica del capitalisme		0
8	Danish (da) Kapitalismekritik		0
9	German (de) Kapitalismuskritik		0
10	Spanish (es) Crítica del capitalismo		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Criticism of capitalism" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Criticism of capitalism		961
2	Polish (pl) Krytyka kapitalizmu		381
3	Arabic (ar) نقد الرأسمالية		254
4	German (de) Kapitalismuskritik		252
5	Chinese (zh) 对资本主义的批评		221
6	Persian (fa) نقد سرمایه‌داری		182
7	Indonesian (id) Kritik terhadap kapitalisme		167
8	French (fr) Critiques du capitalisme		126
9	Korean (ko) 자본주의에 대한 비판		94
10	Spanish (es) Crítica del capitalismo		52

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic نقد الرأسمالية
ca	Catalan Crítica del capitalisme
da	Danish Kapitalismekritik
de	German Kapitalismuskritik
en	English Criticism of capitalism
es	Spanish Crítica del capitalismo
eu	Basque Kapitalismoaren arazoak
fa	Persian نقد سرمایه‌داری
fr	French Critiques du capitalisme
gl	Galician Crítica ó capitalismo
id	Indonesian Kritik terhadap kapitalisme
it	Italian Critiche al capitalismo
ko	Korean 자본주의에 대한 비판
nl	Dutch Kritiek op het kapitalisme
pl	Polish Krytyka kapitalizmu
pt	Portuguese Críticas ao capitalismo
tr	Turkish Kapitalizme yönelik eleştiriler
vi	Vietnamese Phê phán chủ nghĩa tư bản
zh	Chinese 对资本主义的批评

Best Rank

English: #45769 10.2011

Global: #40902 07.2013

Best Rank

English: #3382 02.2022

Global: #9248 05.2005

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