abstract:Anti-capitalism describes a wide variety of movements, ideas, and attitudes that oppose capitalism. Anti-capitalists, in the strict sense of the word, are those who wish to completely replace capitalism with another system.
While Tynan made Brecht acceptable to the British theatrical establishment, he also hampered his reception somewhat by assuming that audiences had to share Brecht's anti-capitalism in order to embrace the plays.
Thankfully, it was the pro-capitalist Hamiltonian alternative to the Jeffersonian ethos that America adopted in its most prosperous century (the 1800s), but the past century has seen a return to Jeffersonian anti-capitalism.