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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