For the past 150 years, Western intellectuals have trumpeted
contempt for capitalism and capitalists. They have written novels,
plays, and manifestos to demonstrate the evils of the economic
system in which they live. Dislike and contempt for the
bourgeoisie, the middle classes, industry, and commerce have been a
prominent trait of leading Western writers and artists. Mind vs.
Money is an analytical history of how and why so many intellectuals
have opposed capitalism. It is also an argument for how this
opposition can be tempered. Historically, intellectuals have
expressed their rejection of capitalism through many different
movements, including nationalism, anti-Semitism, socialism,
fascism, communism, and the 1960s counterculture. Hostility to
capitalism takes new forms today. The anti-globalization, Green,
communitarian, and New Age movements are all examples.
Intellectuals give such movements the legitimacy and leadership
they would otherwise lack. What unites radical intellectuals of the
nineteenth century, communists and fascists of the twentieth, and
anti-globalization protestors of the twenty-first, along with many
other intellectuals not associated with these movements, is their
rejection of capitalism. Kahan argues that intellectuals are a
permanently alienated elite in capitalist societies. In myriad
forms, and on many fronts, the battle between Mind and Money
continues today. Anti-Americanism is one of them. Americans like to
see their country as a beacon of freedom and prosperity. But in the
eyes of many European and American intellectuals, when America is
identified with capitalism, it is transformed from moral beacon
into the "Great Satan." This is just one of the issues Mind vs.
Money explores. The conflict between Mind and Money is the great,
unresolved conflict of modern society. To end it, we must first
understand it.
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