The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality

Introduction

I. The Social Characteristics of Capitalism and the Psychological Causes of its Vilification

• 1. The Sovereign Consumer
• 2. The Urge for Economic Betterment
• 3. Status Society and Capitalism
• 4. The Resentment of Frustrated Ambition
• 5. The Resentment of the Intellectuals
• 6. The Anti-capitalistic Bias of American Intellectuals
• 7. The Resentment of the White-Collar Workers
• 8. The Resentment of the "Cousins"
• 9. The Communism of Broadway and Hollywood

II. The Ordinary Man's Social Philosophy

• 1. Capitalism as it is and as it is Seen by the Common Man
• 2. The Anti-capitalistic Front

III. Literature Under Capitalism

• 1. The Market for Literary Products
• 2. Success on the Book Market
• 3. Remarks about the Detective Stories
• 4. Freedom of the Press
• 5. The Bigotry of the Literati
• 6. The "Social" Novels and Plays

IV. The Noneconomic Objections to Capitalism

• 1. The Argument of Happiness
• 2. Materialism
• 3. Injustice
• 4. The "Bourgeois Prejudice" for Liberty
• 5. Liberty and Western Civilization

V. "Anticommunism" versus Capitalism

Index