A mentalidade anticapitalista ludwig von mises biography
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The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality
1956 book by Ludwig von Mises
The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality is a book written by Austrian School economist and libertarian thinker Ludwig von Mises.
It is an investigation into the psychological roots of the anti-capitalistic stance that Mises saw as widespread in the general populations of the capitalist world.
A mentalidade anticapitalista ludwig von mises biography
Mises suggests various reasons for this mentality, primarily his claim that free competition in the market economy allows for no excuses of one's failures.
Frustrated ambition
"In a society based on caste and status, the individual can ascribe adverse fate to conditions beyond his own control.
[For instance] He is a slave because the superhuman powers that determine all becoming had assigned him this rank. [...] It is quite another thing under capitalism. Here everybody's station in life depends on his own doing [...] The sway of the principle, to each according to his accomplishments, does not allow of any excuse for personal