The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality is a book written by Austrian School economist and libertarian thinker Ludwig von Mises.

11–12) According to the author, faced with this burden many who have fared poorly in the market economy seek a scapegoat to shift the blame from themselves and restore their self-image.

The average wage-earner's high standard of living is viewed as an inevitable result of "self-acting progress", akin to Marx's "material productive forces".

It is a consequence of this fact that an ever increasing portion of the total amount of usable goods produced goes to the wage earners" (p. 89) The Economist called it a "resoundingly silly" caricature of economic liberalism and "a sad little book" that is simplistically dogmatic and displays "cocksure superficiality" in an abusive tone.

It accused von Mises of attacking straw men and having contempt for the facts of human nature, comparing him in that respect to Marxists.