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Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century showed that capitalism, left to itself, generates deepening inequality. In this audacious follow-up, he challenges us to revolutionize how we think about ideology and history, exposing the ideas that have sustained inequality since premodern times and outlining a fairer economic system.
* Our summary is short, simple and pragmatic. It allows you to have the essential ideas of a big book in less than 30 minutes. By reading this summary, you will discover how, through an analysis of capital and social distribution data, human societies have evolved. You will also discover : how great transformations are born from the meeting of ideas and events; how ideology is used to justify existing inequalities; that progressive income tax has promoted economic growth while lowering the level of inequality; that today's society retains many traces of the societies that preceded it; the influence of the communist experience on world ideology; proposals for building a more egalitarian society. Throughout history, societies have largely evolved from a medieval society of orders to today's hypercapitalist society. Using a large database, economist Thomas Piketty has analyzed the evolutions and transformations that have shaped the world. Each period presents an ideology that has allowed the acceptance of a model of organization and distribution of wealth. Indeed, the ideology represents a foundation of values and beliefs that justifies the inequalities generated by the societal model. The study of the trajectories taken by successive societies in history demonstrates their multiplicity. It breaks with a deterministic vision of the world. Today's society has inherited these varied trajectories. Would it be possible to derive a new, more egalitarian ideology from them? *Buy now the summary of this book for the modest price of a cup of coffee!
This book examines a common liberal misconception around the idea of economic inequality.
This book explores several major developmental problems as they manifested themselves in Iraq. It also focuses on the formation of capital in modern Iraq and addresses four theoretical categories.
Louis Althusser’s renowned short text ‘Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses’ radically transformed the concept of the subject, the understanding of the state and even the very frameworks of cultural, political and literary theory. The text has influenced thinkers such as Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Žižek. The piece is, in fact, an extract from a much longer book, On the Reproduction of Capitalism, until now unavailable in English. Its publication makes possible a reappraisal of seminal Althusserian texts already available in English, their place in Althusser’s oeuvre and the relevance of his ideas for contemporary theory. On the Reproduction of Capitalism develops Althusser’s conception of historical materialism, outlining the conditions of reproduction in capitalist society and the revolutionary struggle for its overthrow. Written in the afterglow of May 1968, the text addresses a question that continues to haunt us today: in a society that proclaims its attachment to the ideals of liberty and equality, why do we witness the ever-renewed reproduction of relations of domination? Both a conceptually innovative text and a key theoretical tool for activists, On the Reproduction of Capitalism is an essential addition to the corpus of the twentieth-century Left.
The 1982 split in the Ruling Nationalist Party in South Africa focused attention on the relationship between Afrikaner nationalism and capitalism. Volkskapitalisme (the nationalist term for Afrikaner capital) analyses the development of Afrikaner nationalism from the early thirties to the election victory of the Nationalist Party in 1948. The book sets out to refute the commonly held belief that the nationalist policies of apartheid are simply the product of 'irrational' racial ideology. Dan O'Meara examines here for the first time the relationship between the emergence of 'Afrikaner' capital in the so-called Economic Movement of the 1940s and the political and ideological forms of development of Afrikaner nationalism. During these years, far from being a monolithic movement of an ethnically mobilised group, Afrikaner nationalism emerged as an alliance of conflicting class forces. Dan O'Meara's examination of the development of Afrikaner capital and the interplay of ideology, class and economic interests in Afrikaner nationalism is essential reading for all concerned with past political struggles in southern Africa.