Le Livre noir du capitalisme

Last updated

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.

Contents

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]

Translations of the book have appeared in Greek, Portuguese, [7] Spanish, [8] Italian [9] and Czech. [10]

See also

Related Research Articles

<i>The Black Book of Communism</i> 1997 book by Stéphane Courtois and others

The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression is a 1997 book by Stéphane Courtois, Andrzej Paczkowski, Nicolas Werth, Jean-Louis Margolin, and several other European academics documenting a history of political repression by communist states, including genocides, extrajudicial executions, deportations, and deaths in labor camps and artificially created famines. The book was originally published in France as Le Livre noir du communisme: Crimes, terreur, répression by Éditions Robert Laffont. In the United States, it was published by Harvard University Press, with a foreword by Martin Malia. The German edition, published by Piper Verlag, includes a chapter written by Joachim Gauck. The introduction was written by Courtois. Historian François Furet was originally slated to write the introduction, but he died before being able to do so.

The Prix Jean Vigo is an award in the French cinema given annually since 1951 to a French film director, in homage to Jean Vigo. Since 1960, the award has been given to both a director of a feature film and to a director of a short film.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">André Gorz</span> Austrian philosopher

André Gorz, more commonly known by his pen names Gérard Horst and Michel Bosquet, was an Austrian and French social philosopher and journalist and critic of work. He co-founded Le Nouvel Observateur weekly in 1964. A supporter of Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist version of Marxism after the Second World War, he became in the aftermath of the May '68 student riots more concerned with political ecology.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gilles Perrault</span> French writer and journalist (1931–2023)

Jacques Peyroles, better known by his pen name Gilles Perrault, was a French writer and journalist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">François Delpla</span> French historian

François Delpla is a French historian. He is a specialist in the history of World War II and the French Resistance. He was one of the contributors to the Black Book of Capitalism.

Jean-Pierre Azéma is a French historian.

The grand prix de l'Imaginaire, until 1992 the grand prix de la science-fiction française, is a French literary award for speculative fiction, established in 1972 by the writer Jean-Pierre Fontana as part of the science fiction convention of Clermont-Ferrand.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">René Binet (neo-Fascist)</span> French Trotskyist and neo-fascist activist

René Binet was a French fascist political activist. Initially a Trotskyist in the 1930s, he espoused fascism during World War II and joined the SS Charlemagne Division. Soon after the end of the war, Binet became involved in numerous neo-fascist and white supremacist publications and parties. He wrote the 1950 book Théorie du racisme, deemed influential on the European far-right at large. Binet died in a car accident in 1957, aged 44.

The Fénéon Prize, established in 1949, is awarded annually to a French-language writer and a visual artist no older than 35 years of age. The prize was established by Fanny Fénéon, the widow of French art critic Félix Fénéon. She bequeathed the proceeds from the sale of his art collection to the University of Paris, whose Vice Chancellor chairs the award jury.

Jean-Gilles Malliarakis is a French far-right politician and writer.

Jean Vautrin, real name Jean Herman, was a French writer, filmmaker and film critic.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jean-Yves Mollier</span> French contemporary history teacher (born 1947)

Jean-Yves Mollier is a French contemporary history teacher.

The Prix du Quai des Orfèvres is an annual French literature award created in 1946 by Jacques Catineau. It goes to an unpublished manuscript for a French-language police novel. The selected novel is then published by a major French publishing house, since 1965 Fayard. The jury is led by the chief of the Prefecture of Police of Paris. The name of the award refers to the headquarters of the Paris police, located at 36, quai des Orfèvres.

Fleuve Noir Anticipation was a science fiction collection by Fleuve Noir, a French publishing company, which encompassed 2001 novels published from 1951 to 1997. Aimed at a broad audience, Fleuve Noir Anticipation was originally conceived to publish books addressing the rumored rise of technocracy in the French Fourth Republic; but later focused on space opera and topics of popular interest.

The prix Broquette-Gonin was a former prize awarded by the Académie française.

The Prix Sainte-Beuve, established in 1946, is a French literary prize awarded each year to a writer in the categories "novels" and "essays" ; it is named after the writer Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve. The founding jury included Raymond Aron, Maurice Blanchot, Edmond Buchet, Maurice Nadeau, Jean Paulhan and Raymond Queneau.

Jacques Krier was a French television film producer and director. A communist, he directed many mini-series of television documentaries about the living conditions of French workers, including janitors, as well as Arabs in French Algeria and immigrants from Mali. He also directed films for television and documentaries for the General Confederation of Labour, a labor union. He was the author of several novels and the winner of the 2000 Prix Roger Vailland.

Le Temps des cerises is a French publishing house founded in 1993 by 33 writers.

Éditions Galilée is a French publishing house in Paris, and was founded in 1971 by Michel Delorme. It specializes in philosophy, French literature, arts and human sciences. Focusing on the deconstructionist thought of Jacques Derrida, Galilée also publishes works on postmodernist thought.

Europe-Action was a far-right white nationalist and euro-nationalist magazine and movement, founded by Dominique Venner in 1963 and active until 1966. Distancing itself from pre-WWII fascist ideas such as anti-intellectualism, anti-parliamentarianism and traditional French nationalism, Europe-Action promoted a pan-European nationalism based on the "Occident"—or the "white peoples"— and a social Darwinism escorted by racialism, labeled "biological realism". These theories, along with the meta-political strategy of Venner, influenced young Europe-Action journalist Alain de Benoist and are deemed conducive to the creation of GRECE and the Nouvelle Droite in 1968.

References

  1. 1 2 "Elements de critique sociale". Alternative Libertaire (in French). 220. September 1999. Archived from the original on 19 October 2008.
  2. "Black Book of Capitalism" (in French). Pour la Republique Sociale. Archived from the original on 4 October 2011.
  3. "La Maison d'édition" (in French). Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 17 April 2008.
  4. Marie Germanos (May 2002). "Le livre noir du capitalisme". Socialisme International (in French). 3. Retrieved 17 April 2008.
  5. "LE LIVRE NOIR DU CAPITALISME". Marianne (in French). 17 November 1997. Retrieved 18 April 2008.[ dead link ]
  6. Pierre Gilly (April 1998). "Svenska Clartéförbundet – Recensioner 1998-4". Tidskriften Clarté (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 23 May 2008. Retrieved 18 April 2008.
  7. Perrault, Gilles, ed. (1999). O livro negro do capitalismo (in Portuguese). Record. ISBN   9788501056566 . Retrieved 25 September 2021.
  8. Perrault, Gilles, ed. (1998). El libro negro del capitalismo. Gebaratik at (in Spanish). Tafalla, Navarre: Txalaparta (published 2001). ISBN   9788481362220 . Retrieved 25 September 2021.
  9. "Il libro nero del capitalismo" (in Italian). Retrieved 18 April 2008.
  10. "Černá kniha kapitalismu" (in Czech). Archived from the original on 18 July 2011.

Bibliography

Perrault, Gilles, ed. (1998). Le Livre Noir du Capitalisme. Le Temps des cerises. 427 pages. ISBN   978-2-84109-144-7.