Le Livre noir du capitalisme
1998 book by various authors
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Le livre noir du Capitalisme (The Black Book of Capitalism) is a 1998 French book published in reaction to The Black Book of Communism (1997). Unlike the earlier work, Le livre noir du capitalisme's primary goal is not to try to attribute a number of victims to the political system in question. Rather, the body of the book comprises a series of independent works from various writers who each voice their critique on various aspects of capitalism.[1] Topics covered range from the African slave trade to the effects of globalization.
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| Author | Gilles Perrault |
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| Original title | Le Livre noir du capitalisme |
| Language | French |
| Publication date | 1998 |
An appendix provides an incomplete list of 20th-century death-tolls which editor Gilles Perrault attributes to the capitalist system. The list includes certain death-tolls covering the two World Wars, colonial wars, anti-communist campaigns, repressions and mass killings, ethnic conflicts, and victims of famines or malnutrition; bringing the incomplete total to 100 million deaths attributed to capitalism in the 20th century.[2]
Contributors
Contributors to the book include historians, sociologists, economists, trade unionists and writers such as:[1][3][4][5][6]
Caroline Andréani, François Arzalier, Roger Bordier, Maurice Buttin, François Chesnais, Maurice Cury, François Delpla, François Derivery, André Devriendt, Pierre Durand, Jean-Pierre Fléchard, Yves Frémion, Yves Grenet, Jacques Jurquet, Jean Laïlle, Maurice Moissonnier, Robert Pac, Philippe Paraire, Paco Peña, André Prenant, Maurice Rajsfus, Jean Suret-Canale, Subhi Toma, Monique and Roland Weyl, Claude Willard, Jean Ziegler
Translations of the book have appeared in Greek, Portuguese,[7] Spanish,[8] Italian[9] and Czech.[10]
Index
- I. Why a book about Capitalism
- II. Totalitarian neo-liberalism
- III. Origins of Capitalism: XV-XIX centuries
- IV. An slave-focused economy and capitalism: a quantifiable evaluation.
- V. The First World War: 15 million dead and 30 million injured in 3 years and a half.
- VI. The counter-revolution and the foreign interventions in Russia (1917-1922)
- VII. An inmense Guernica.
- VIII. The Second World War.
- IX. On the origins of wars and a paroxysmal form of capitalism
- X. Imperialism, Zionism and Palestine.
- XI. War and oppression. War and punishment: The cost in Vietnam.
- XII. The fascist annexation of East Timor.
- XIII. Africa under french colonial mandate.
- XIV. African independence and “communism”
- XV. North American interventions in Latin America.
- XVI. The Long March of African Americans in the United States. The unfinished dream.
- XVII. A century of genocide in Cuba. Weiler's reconcentration policy.
- XVIII. The genocide of the indigenous American aborigines.
- XIX. The capitalist assault on Asia.
- XX. Migrations in the 19th and 20th centuries: A contribution to the history of capitalism.
- XXI. Capitalism, the arms race, and commercial arms. The Military-Industrial Complex.
- XXII. The living dead of globalization.
- XXIII. Swiss bankers kill without weapons.
- XXIV. A pub is worth a thousand bombs (advertising crimes in modern warfare).
- XXV. When the abolition of capitalism is not enough.
- XXVI. Capitalism and barbarism: The dark portrait of the massacres and wars of the 20th century.