Time For Socialism: Dispatches from a world on Fire, 2016-2021, by Thomas Piketty

Author: Thomas Piketty. Review by Reg Naulty.

'The Assembly would be composed of elected parliamentarians from all twenty-seven countries.' | Photo: Book cover of Time For Socialism: Dispatches from a world on Fire, 2016-2021, by Thomas Piketty

This book is a call for more socialism. It also presents a case for the redesign of the European Union. Thomas Piketty envisages a large-scale re-distribution of income, using progressive taxation on super-rich corporations and individuals, whose wealth has increased by an astonishing amount since the low tax regimes inaugurated by Reagan and Thatcher.

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