In his book Capitalism Crazy: How the Rich Won the Class Struggle, published by Flammarion, French economic adviser Alain Minc, in dialogue and partnership with journalist and journalist Guillaume Erner, offers an intensive reading of the profound transformations that have afflicted the Western economic system.The book starts from a central observation that forms the "elephant in the room": the unprecedented explosion in the numbers of the wealthy and above the wealthy (Ultra-rich) around the world. The authors argue that traditional approaches that attribute this phenomenon to tax loopholes, financial evasion, or weak redistributive mechanisms remain superficial interpretations of a moral nature that ignore the essence of the impasse. The issue at heart is not just a lack of taxation, but a political question with Marxist roots par excellence: how did classHas the direct wealth resolved the "class struggle" in its favor in an unprecedented manner?
The importance of the offering comes from the identity of Alain Mink himself, as one of the actors and witnesses behind the scenes of the business world in France for decades. The book combines structural analysis with critical reflection on the mechanisms of contemporary capitalism, which has deviated from its model of competition, innovation and social responsibility into a system that concentrates wealth and political power in the hands of a very few.The work examines how capitalism has transformed from an engine of growth and equal opportunity to a mechanism that reproduces privileges and entrenches class differences, considering that the growing disconnect between capital and labor is no longer just an economic imbalance but a direct threat to social and democratic stability. The book also reviews the political, economic and legislative tools that enabled this category to formulate the rules of the economic game in its favor.“Mad capitalism” is not just a traditional attack on the capitalist system, but a critical testimony from within the economic institution itself. It is an eloquent attempt to dismantle the current economic landscape, and illustrate how the structural transformations of recent decades have resolved the class struggle in favor of the wealthy, calling for a rethinking of the rules of the game before these imbalances undermine the entire social peace.
