LogikAndReazon
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- Feb 21, 2012
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The right is dropping the ball when it comes to Thomas Pikettys much heralded and totally flawed book on inequality, Capital in the 21st Century. This long and lugubrious opus is really an open sore, replete with so much absurdity that shooting it down should be like shooting fish in a barrel.
The left has embraced this rant against capitalism and conservatives should be tying them to it, to expose where all the class-war rhetoric would really bring us.
Yet, with a few notable exceptions like The Posts Kyle Smith, the right has kept silent.
Piketty, for instance, wants to spread the word that one of the most discredited economists in history, Karl Marx, was actually pretty much on point about who might win his predicted class struggle.
He also wants us to believe the French Revolution, with all its beheadings and all the chaos that wound up making Napoleon the countrys sole ruler, was a more important uprising than the American Revolution because the froggies confiscated so much wealth along the way.
Then theres Pikettys gonzo solution to inequality: Impose a massive global wealth tax on anyone who makes more than $500,000 even if that tax leads to a massive recession.
In other words, the world would be a better place if everyone was poor. In fact, Piketty also seems to like the fact that there was less income inequality during the Great Depression.....
I Checked My Privilege, & It's Doing Just Fine
Clueless marxist scumbags
The left has embraced this rant against capitalism and conservatives should be tying them to it, to expose where all the class-war rhetoric would really bring us.
Yet, with a few notable exceptions like The Posts Kyle Smith, the right has kept silent.
Piketty, for instance, wants to spread the word that one of the most discredited economists in history, Karl Marx, was actually pretty much on point about who might win his predicted class struggle.
He also wants us to believe the French Revolution, with all its beheadings and all the chaos that wound up making Napoleon the countrys sole ruler, was a more important uprising than the American Revolution because the froggies confiscated so much wealth along the way.
Then theres Pikettys gonzo solution to inequality: Impose a massive global wealth tax on anyone who makes more than $500,000 even if that tax leads to a massive recession.
In other words, the world would be a better place if everyone was poor. In fact, Piketty also seems to like the fact that there was less income inequality during the Great Depression.....
I Checked My Privilege, & It's Doing Just Fine
Clueless marxist scumbags
