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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: BannedFromDU on June 09, 2015, 07:19:45 PM
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hifiguy (22,534 posts)
Go out of your way to read Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the 21st Century"
if you haven't already done so. One of the most important books of the last 25 years. Piketty is brilliant. A little dry, but eminently readable and the last section of the book is one of the most far-reaching proposals I have heard in decades.
Miss at your own risk.
Allow me to translate: "I would like for you all to believe that I have read and understand this book." (http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026807445)
Seriously - I've seen more references to the book on DU than I can count, but not one quote. Not one. This puts Capital in the Twenty First Century in the company of Gravity's Rainbow and Moby Dick in terms of bookshelf books that are meant to impose rather than to cite.
In any case, the book has already had its empiricism discredited, so whatever. I just don't believe for one second that any of you lurking morons have read the book other than flipping through it at Barnes & Noble while you're stopping in to see if Saje Williams has hit it big yet (spolier: he hasn't).
The book does have value in its usefulness toward assisting socialist regimes: it's over 400 pages long and can be sent to Venazuela to be used as toilet paper.
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In any case, the book has already had its empiricism discredited, so whatever.
Thoroughly.
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But Saje is still the master of the intergalactic vampire sex crime novel.
Another DUmp icon. Wish he'd come back.
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Ultra-Cliff notes version:
Capitalism sucks. Get rid of it. Become communist.