My wife (who's Turkish) just showed me this. She was so proud of him for doing so considering the backlash he's going to suffer, even though she does not think of herself as especially political. Erkan is a chad and his mustache is amazing even by Turkish politics standards.
I'm getting drunk on cheap beer, playing ping pong with my neighbors, and I've got a stew cooking in the oven.
Everything might be shit otherwise, I'm unemployed, my welfare will end soon (at least I got some), I'm stressed at, but it's nice rn. So I'll take it. It's all I've got.
How are you all doing
He's absolutely a radlib/social-democrat. I read capital in the 21st century, and found it fascinating as a data driven analysis of historical trends. Super interesting, lots of insights to be gained, and he's actually a pretty clear and cogent writer (if dry). All the critics I've seen from the left concede that.
However, some of his explanations for those historical trends are perplexing and his solutions are laughably lib considering the scale and sheer power of capital he spent one thousand pages to describe.
It's actually an amazing case of cognitive dissonance, because he himself says that only extremely destructive events really put a dent in the concentration of capital in Europe (namely: WWI and WWII), and social movements were at best able to slow down the concentration of economic power of capital but never to stop or reverse it (in his view) which is some truly blackpill shit.
And then he essentially offers as a solution: let's just tax the rich more lol!
Like... Really? That's it dude? But the 3 centuries of economic data are cool, ngl
Jokes on you I have to learn Dutch to get a job hahaha :angery: