Im kinda scepitcal and dont want to waste my time, maybe someone here has read it and could tell me if its worth it or not, tia. it the author even a marxist?

  • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.ml
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    It was a long time and I only read a few chapters from the beginning. But from my perspective the book is interesting only as a source statistics rather than an explanation of why things are how they are. Also Piketty is explicitly not a Marxist so don’t get any hopes up about that.

    My suggestion is to read a few chapters from the beginning. It doesn’t require that much time investment but you will be able to see what the book is about.

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      okay then ill probably skip it, i would have to order it online first and dont want to spend my money on some reiteration of a socdem view on marx that i already know anyways

      ty for the answer

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        Just pirate it. If you don’t know where to get it from let me know. Reading books digitally is not a good experience but for a couple of chapters it is bearable. Piketty is dogmatically liberal but the book is still worth a look at least. IIRC Xi Jinping made a list of sort of books of the year and it was in it. Even though it is banned in China lmao