Friday 25 April 2014

Paul Krugman: Thomas Piketty’s got conservatives running scared - Salon.com

So, are you a Marxist? 

If you think the modern economy is a greatly uneven game and that total wealth is distributed more to those who inherit it rather than earn it, you probably think its time for social policy to add more evenhandedness to the game and perhaps tax inherited wealth a bit heavier. 

Does that make you a Marxist? Or say .... Who cares any more? What's past is past and the young will decide if they can, one way or another...

Maybe you think those that inherit wealth should be trained how to manage their windfall rather than waste it. A compulsory school for those who inherit a billion dollars, who are apt to waste it when they could do something productive with it other than financing personal armies and shooting poor people....

Is Putin a Marxist? 
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