Title: Schwarzbuch Kapitalismus
Subtitle: Ein Abgesang auf die Marktwirtschaft
First published: January 1, 2000
Description: **Schwarzbuch Kapitalismus: ein Abgesang auf die Marktwirtschaft** (*The Black Book of Capitalism: A farewell to the market economy*) is a book written by the German Marxian critical-theorist Robert Kurz in 1999. In an interview, Kurz described his book as a "radical-critical history of modernization since the 18th century." The book has, as of 2022, not been translated into other languages from the original German.

Kurz had originally preferred the title The Satanic Mills for his work, but decided with his editor, in reaction to The Black Book of Communism, to title the book The Black Book of Capitalism. Unlike The Black Book of Communism, Kurz's book does not attempt to list the crimes of capitalism, as Kurz explains that he doesn't "think that even 100 thick volumes would suffice." Instead, this work is a history of the three great industrial revolutions, the legitimization of the social consequences of capitalism, the socialist labour movement viewed as engrained in bourgeois modernization, and the crises that can be viewed as endemic under the capitalist system. His economic and socio-historical reconstruction of capitalism has been described by one reviewer as serving the purpose of putting the crimes of communism into “the shadow of those of capitalism.”.

(Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzbuch_Kapitalismus))
Subjects: Capitalism, Criticism