From: Jesse Cohn [jessecohn-AT-verizon.net]

 

Hi Dave—

 

on a quick look, it seems to appear in a political context well before the 60s.  I see French uses of it from the 1930s and earlier, e.g.:

 

Baussart, Élie, and Luigi Sturzo. _Essai d'initiation à la révolution anticapitaliste_. Gembloux: Éditions de la Terre wallonne, 1938.

 

Mounier, Emmanuel. Révolution personnaliste et communautaire. Collection Esprit. Paris: F. Aubier, 1935. <— CHAPITRE X: ANTICAPITALISME

 

Daniel Guérin uses the term in a derogatory way in _Fascism and Big Business_ (1936) to refer to the pseudo-revolutionary posturing of the

Nazis: "Le fascisme propose à ses troupes un « anticapitalisme » petit-bourgeois bien différent de l'anticapitalisme socialiste." A similar usage appears in the _Revue politique et littéraire_ in 1897, where a critic warns that antisemitism leads to "ce qu'on appelle du nom vague d'anticapitalisme," i.e., "déclamations contre la finance et les financiers, contre le capital et les capitalistes. Et si l'anticapitalisme ne vous dit rien, s'il vous faut des mots plus clairs, je vous dirai que l'antisémitisme glisse tôt ou tard au socialisme."

 

Don't know if this really helps, though.  Sounds like you're really wanting to know when it got adopted as a self-definition by a kind of left formation, no?

 

—Jesse

 

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