Thomas Piketty's capital and ideology: inequality is not economic or technological, is ideological and political

Abstract

Thomas Piketty's new book is essentially about inequality, the biggest structural evil on our planet. This global polarization is becoming explosive, as some social groups are appropriating radically disproportionate results of what society produces, even outside any relationship of merit. These are economic mechanisms of appropriation, but also political power, a monopoly on the exercise of violence, control of laws and, in particular, ideological constructions that generate an appearance of legitimacy. Hence the title of the work, Capital and ideology, that is, the wealth of societies on the one hand, and the justifications for their unbalanced appropriation on the other.