
Thomas Piketty’s thousand-page economics bestseller reduces capital to mere wealth leaving out its political impact on social and economic relationships throughout history.
Thomas Piketty’s global renown shouldn’t stop us from asking some hard political questions or rather questions about his intellectual and political deception. The media have been almost unanimous about his Capital in the Twenty-First Century, proof in itself of the book’s total innocuousness. The world would have to have changed a great deal for Libération, Le Monde, the New York Times, the Washington Post and many more to be so enthusiastic about anything actually controversial. One thing is for sure: only favourably disposed media could hail Piketty as a “21st-century Marx” simply because he calls his book Capital. He admits he has “never managed really” to read Das Kapital or any other works of Marx, does not set out any theory of capitalism, and makes no attempt to challenge its basis.
https://mondediplo.com/2015/05/12Piketty