The Capitalist System: A Radical Analysis of American Society

by Richard C. Edwards, Michael Reich, Thomas E. Weisskopf

This paperback book of readings, to which 60 people (mostly social scientists) have contributed, constitutes a massive indictment of the contemporary American economic system. It is cast in Marxian teminology but stripped of some of Marx's turgidity and excess verbiage. Its central focus is the broadly conceived irrationality. It is also a plea for finding the ways and means to resolve the contradictions of advanced capitalism in favor of human society -- of decency in interpersonal relations.

560 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1972

Reviews

[William Crosby]

Got for my Soc 117 (American Society) class at UC Berkeley in the Spring of 1978. Read part of it then. Read some more in March, 1980. Finally finished it this year (after finding it when I was going through boxes of books). It was falling apart so, after I read it, I put into the recycling bin. One of the last textbooks I had from my college days. (Many were paperback and disintegrating.)