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?
If you ever do, then only after reading Capital vol 1 and 2, Poverty of Philosophy (ie the attack on Proudhonism) and throw in Ferrana’s Why The World Needs China so you can insulate yourself from the Pickettys of the future.
Why Piketty isn’t Marx: https://mondediplo.com/2015/05/12piketty
im currently reading “Das Kapital - kompakt” by Georg Fülberth, a Political scientist and member of the DKP
i dont really have the time rn to fully read all 3 volumes of Das Kapital, although I own them
It took me forever to read them and I still have not finished it all (and not even started vol 3). I, however, have gone through Marx’s Inferno and Frome’s condensed version on Redsails.org, which helped a lot.
Not read “Das Kapital - kompakt” but will try to see if I can get a translation in the future.
some time in the future i definitely will read it though just not right now
If, you like a SocDem complaining about the inequality but he says “capitalism is inevitable and it won’t collapse “, then yes.
It’s unfortunate we have to glean mountains of information the world over for a few grains of truth to mill together to bake a loaf. No wonder people end up half-baked.
same old story…
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.
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
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
I’ve read both Capital in the 21st as well as Capital and Ideology.
Imho, just read Capital and Ideology after reading Marx
It’s more comprehensive and wide ranging in its analysis. It’s still very socdem as others have noted, but there’s no other book which has charted the dynamics of the world’s wealth over centuries
I.e. while Marx depicts the original accumulation of Britain in Vol 1, Piketty aggregates the original accumulation of most of the world’s empires, even though he uses socdem framing
No, don’t bother.
