Reviews for The anti-capitalistic mentality

The average rating for The anti-capitalistic mentality based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-11-21 00:00:00 Cary Rappuhn This book is essential to understanding why people are socialists (whether they know it or not). In the past, I could never comprehend why people, that I knew well, could fail to realize their view of how the 'world should be' was a largely socialist viewpoint. "How could a rational, logical, thinking human ever come to the conclusions you have have arrived at?!" I would ask in dismay. This book clears all that up. Mises shows the core of socialism is envy. He shows that capitalism, while making men equal before God and the law, exposes the fact that nature has distributed talent, intelligence, drive, and other gifts very, very unequally. Men have to choose between facing this inequality and admitting that the next man is more successful because he is endowed with a greater ability to meet the requirements of society, or he will refuse to face this fact and build a wall around his ego - a pseudo-philosophy to protect himself against the truth - this is socialism.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-10-20 00:00:00 Brittany Brinkman This book is a rant against anti-capitalists. It's repetitive and makes many false assumptions about them (while giving no satisfactory answers to why it does that). According to the book, all poor people had equal opportunity to be as rich and famous as anyone else, but they ruined it because they were worthless. And if not so, it's not fault of capitalism, but because it's not implemented in an absolute way. The book also says that all the technological advancements have been possible only because of capitalism (notice no mention of implementation or increased human understanding of physics here). There are so many such contradictions and hypocritical statements that i don't even want to go into all of them. This was mostly load of crap. Biased and with a tone which would make you cringe.