We must focus on shifting the balance of power in society away from capital and towards labour by expanding state, community and worker ownership. This is not simply a moral or political statement: it is a statement of necessity. Without a plan to socialise wealth, the economic contradictions of th…
Piketty’s wealth tax is a prime example of “solutionism”: a proposal intended to solve all of the world’s problems through tweaks to the current institutional architecture. He pays little attention to power, to politics, or any other drivers of change. The same can be said for a lot of other radica…