Capital e ideología

Thanks to the success of Capital in the 21st Century, Thomas Piketty has been able to access fiscal and historical sources that different governments have refused to offer until now. Based on the study of these unpublished data, the result of the joint effort of more than one hundred researchers in more than eighty countries, this book proposes an economic, social, intellectual and political history of inequality, from the estates and slave-owning societies to the postcolonial societies. and modern hypercapitalists, passing through colonialist, communist and social democratic societies. An important conclusion emerges from this analysis: inequality is not economic or technological, it is ideological and political. In other words, ideas and ideologies count in history. For Piketty, the common thread of the history of human societies (which is also the history of the search for justice) is not the class struggle, as defended by Marx and Engels, but the struggle of ideologies. Social position is not enough to forge a theory of a just society, of just property, of just taxation, or of democracy. No one will ever have the absolute truth on these issues.