Capital in the 21st century

Enjoyed the honesty tbh
Pretending to care is way more unbearable

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Like all writings, it should be looked at critically, but I think it forms an important contribution to socialist theory, especially its reams of research, which are invaluable to us as they were to Marx.

libcom.org/library/reforming-reformers-gilles-dauvé
- Gilles Dauve - Reforming the reformers

david harvey's book review:

pt2

pt3

piketty = rekt

Jason please the adults are talking

Sigh, I don't completely agree with this but it mostly true.

There is next to no solidarity in the US with third world workers. Certainly some of that is due to ignorance, and exhaustion from their own exploitation under capitalism they are experiencing.

But so many proles I talk to almost seem to revel in the fact that their country's military can stomp all these poor countries.

I think we need to stop romanticizing the proletariat in first world countries. We can't have a revolution without solidarity with all workers since any gains in the 1st world can be whittled away through competition with the 3rd world.

Barely an prole in the US at least seems to understand this, and strike me as just aspiring porkies.

You know it's true.

Without solidarity with the workers of the world, the Americans will deserve only the gulag.

Well they're getting neoliberalism, don't know which is worse.

I've heard it's pretty terrible. Social-democratic, Keynesian bullshit

ironically solidarity w/ the 3rd world is the quickest route to quelling the nazis' immigration anxiety, by attacking the problem at its source. of course they'll never see things that way.

I mean these criticisms have a valid point. Ultimately if you talk about muh 1% having to much without examining more fully why that's a problem, you'll arrive at the liberal "hey let's tax the rich problem solved XD" solution.

pretty sure that what he used up those 800 pages doing