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Le Livre Noir du Capitalisme (The Black Book of Capitalism) is a French book published in 1998, in reaction to The Black Book of Communism (1997). It was published by the publisher "Le Temps des Cerises" who states that it is committed to the ideals of the Paris Commune.

Unlike the "The Black Book of Capitalism", Le Livre Noir du Capitalisme does not attempt to provide a comprehensive tally of victims of the political system in question. Rather, the book is composed of a series of independent essays commissioned from various writers who were given free rein to write on any aspect of capitalism they chose. Topics covered range from the African slave trade to the era of financial globalization.

The book states that capitalism has killed approximately 147 million people between 1500 and 1997. This includes 70 million Indians during the colonization of the Americas (see Population history of American indigenous peoples#Genocide debate), 10 million due to slavery, 10 million due to World War I, 50 million due to World War II, 3 million due to the Vietnam War, and 1 million due to the Biafra War.

Edited by Gilles Perrault, the other contributors to the book include historians, sociologists, economists, trade unionists and writers: Caroline Andréani, François Arzalier, Roger Bordier, Maurice Buttin, François Chesnais, Maurice Cury, François Delpla, François Derivery, André Devriendt, Pierre Durand, Jean-Pierre Fléchard, Yves Frémion, Yves Grenet, Jacques Jurquet, Jean Laïlle, Maurice Moissonnier, Robert Pac, Philippe Paraire, Paco Peña, André Prenant, Maurice Rajsfus, Jean Suret-Canale, Subhi Toma, Monique and Roland Weyl, Claude Willard and Jean Ziegler.

The book has been translated into Italian. Le Livre Noir du Capitalisme is also the name of a CD by Sylvain Chauveau

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  3. Marie Germanos (May 2002). "Le livre noir du capitalisme". Socialisme International. 3. Retrieved 2008-04-17.
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  6. "Il libro nero del capitalismo". Retrieved 2008-04-18.
  7. "SYLVAIN CHAUVEAU [Le Livre Noir Du Capitalisme] × XSILENCE.NET ×". Retrieved 2008-04-18.

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