Book Reviews
Long-form book reviews — the LongPress imprint on the Reporters Desk backend.
“Iconoclast: a breaker of idols”: Why Ambedkar espoused social, economic, and political freedom
Ambedkar's mentor Dewey emphasised that the primary task of philosophy was not to ponder on abstract ideas or time and space among others, but to deal with basic problems faced by humanity.
‘If democracy is someday to regain control of capitalism…[the] concrete institutions in which democracy, capitalism are embodied, need to be reinvented again and again’
Capital in the 21st Century by Thomas Piketty says that for many “wealth” amounts to little more than a few weeks’ wages in a checking account, a car and a few pieces of furniture. The author says that the "inescapable reality” is this: the wealth is so concentrated that a large segment of society is virtually unaware of its existence, so that “some people imagine that it belongs to surreal or mysterious entities. That is why it is so essential to study capital and its distribution in a methodical, systematic way”.