¡Viva el socialismo!

"If they had told me in 1990 that in 2020 I was going to publish a collection of chronicles entitled ¡Viva el socialismo! I would have thought it was a bad joke. I belong to a generation that did not have time to be seduced by communism and that He became an adult noting the absolute failure of Sovietism", says Thomas Piketty in the unpublished preface to this collection of his monthly columns published in Le Monde from September 2016 to July 2020. In the 1990s he was more liberal than socialist, but thirty years then he believes that hypercapitalism has gone too far and that we must think about overcoming capitalism, in a new form of socialism, participatory and decentralized, federal and democratic, ecological and feminist. These columns, complete with graphics, tables and additional texts by the author, and which constitute a synthesis of the thought of one of the most important economists of our time, reflect on how the real change, the "participatory socialism", will only occur when the citizens recover the tools that allow them to organize their own collective life. In addition, they represent an exhaustive review of all the major economic, political and social issues of recent times, from the functioning of the EU, Brexit, the increase in inequality, the strength of China and the new axes of world power. or the most recent health and economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic.