Contents
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PART A: THE TEN GREATEST ANTI -CAPITALIST FALLACIES
1. “Capitalism is responsible for hunger and poverty”
3
2. “Capitalism leads to growing inequality”
22
3. “Capitalism is responsible for environmental destruction
and climate change”
46
4. “Capitalism repeatedly leads to new economic and financial crises”
71
5. “Capitalism is dominated by the rich; they set the political agenda”
86
6. “Capitalism leads to monopolies”
102
7. “Capitalism promotes selfishness and greed”
122
8. “Capitalism entices people to buy products they don’t need”
138
9. “Capitalism leads to wars”
163
10. “Capitalism means that there is always a danger of fascism”
179
PART B: ANTI -CAPITALIST ALTERNATIVES
11. Socialism always looks good on paper
(except when that paper is in a history book)
195
PART B: ANTI -CAPITALIST ALTERNATIVES
12. What people in the United States think of capitalism
235
13. What people in Great Britain think of capitalism
269
14. What people in Asia, Europe, South America
and the United States think of capitalism
298
Conclusion: Anti-capitalism as a Political Religion
335
Weiying Zhang: Market Economy and Common Prosperity
350
The Questionnaire
371
The Author
376
Notes
378
Bibliography
408
Index of Persons
437
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