Le Livre noir du capitalisme

Book From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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.

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]

See also

References

Bibliography

Loading related searches...

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.