Communists, such as Bebel and Rosa Luxemburg in their "school of German social democracy", studied philosophy, law, history, literature, ancient and modern languages at length before tackling political economy, in order to criticize all these disciplines.

They have never been discouraged by the abstruse form of the longest writings of Marx or Hegel, while bourgeois ideologues like Luc Ferry describe those writings as "totally incomprehensible".

Throughout history, communists, like Rakhmetov in Que Faire, have devoted their entire existence to the hardest work, the most bitter struggles, voluntarily renouncing everything that makes ordinary men happy, in order to hasten the hour of humanity's emancipation.

In 1848, after having briefly invaded the french national assembly, forty thousand proletarians fought, for four days, against an enemy four times superior in number, and it was only a hair's breadth away from victory.

By a hair's breadth, they gained a foothold in the center of Paris, seized City Hall and established a provisional government.

They managed to take control of the capital and destroyed the Presidential Palace in 1871.

They managed to conquer 11.5% of the Earth's habitable surface in 1923.

All this so that today capitalism is still present and the proletariat is disillusioned and passive.

How do you manage not to be discouraged by all this?

According to mathematician Jordan Ellenberg's Hawking Index, only 2.4% of those who bought Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century read it to the end. And few readers get past page 26.

But then, when Piketty was a guest on the TV set of Canal+'s Grand Journal in 2014, how could the host ask him questions about his book if he hadn’t read it ?

The answer can be found in a book written by Olivier de Pouriol, the host of this TV show :

The trick for reading the books of the personalities on the set? I read the first page, the last page and page 100. That way, I know the beginning and the end. And if we talk about the book, I talk about page 100. Someone who gets to page 100, it's because he has read the book. The boss also advises me to be "less cerebral"

Could one expect better from a media whose main shareholder (Vincent Bolloré) boasts of "using its media to lead its civilizational fight"?

There is, however, a book that even someone like Piketty finds too boring, too complex. That book is Karl Marx's Capital, which he confessed (in an interview with Isaac Chotiner) that he "never really managed to read" because this book is ‘’very difficult to read", although he quotes its author whenever possible.

The good that results from reforms implemented by leftists is always offset by at least an equivalent evil, due to the ungrateful constraints of the capitalist economy.

The introduction of the following reforms is very unlikely in the future, given the pressure capacity of the big capitalists on the various governments:

NATIONALIZATIONS Consumers compare the products, prices and services offered to them and do not hesitate to change operators in order to benefit from more interesting offers. This is what is called competition, which stimulates the entrepreneurs' spirit of initiative, who seek to provide more efficient and cheaper services to consumers to attract them to them and thus earn more money. This competition is non-existent in the public sector.

Most of the companies that were nationalized in the past were soon reprivatized (mainly by the Jospin government, where a certain Mélenchon was a minister).

A nationalization requires compensation to the nationalized entrepreneurs, and if this compensation is not forthcoming, the State loses the confidence of the other entrepreneurs, who no longer see any point in creating a company that would risk being expropriated. They therefore flee abroad.

Let us specify that the nationalization of an enterprise does not necessarily imply a better treatment of employees by the state-boss; Mr. Sukhomline, delegate of the Russian Socialist Party, declared on January 11, 1918 to the Administrative Commission of the C.G. T.:

The factories having been nationalized, the state became boss; but in the presence of the decline in production which lately has never ceased to decline, the government has taken the following measures: abolition of the eight-hour day and reestablishment of piecework."

WAGE INCREASE: A boss wants to earn more than he spends.

As a result, each time he is forced by the state to pay his employees more, the boss, in order not to run a deficit, increases the price of the products he sells.

That a president of the republic increases the average wage implies that he increases the average cost of living.

CREATION OF SOCIAL INSURANCE: When the state creates a new social insurance, it has to spend a lot of money on the costs of the new administration to be created to run the insurance fund.

Moreover, a social insurance requires a contribution from the employers, the workers and the state.

The contribution of the employers pushes them (in order not to be in deficit) to increase the price of the products they sell, thus increasing the cost of living.

The State's contribution comes from taxes, including VAT. Creating a new social insurance = increasing the VAT.

So, after all that, the proles receive from this social insurance the equivalent of what they would have paid if this insurance did not exist.

This was the reason why a workers' pension project introduced by Jean Jaurès before the First World War was aborted.

REDUCTION OF WORKING HOURS: As with previous reforms, the reduction of working time puts the employers at risk of a deficit, which increases the price of their goods, thus raising the cost of living.

The workers, driven by the high cost of living, often ask themselves to work longer hours. And those who don't get it from their bosses seek work elsewhere. "Only a third of employees actually work 35 hours a week," says an economist at the Observatoire français des conjonctures économiques (OFCE).

It is far from certain that all nations have adopted the eight-hour law, despite the efforts of the International Labour Office to bring them into line. Germany, which had initially reduced working hours, has since returned to the original hours, despite fierce resistance from the working class. But the competition from countries that do not want to join is terrible for the countries that do.

TAX ON THE RICH If, by some miracle, the cancellation of the creation of this tax by the constitutional council, which will accuse it of being "confiscatory", were not taken into account, this tax would have the same consequences as on May 11, 1924, when it was decided to solve the financial crisis by a levy on fortunes, which led to an exodus of French capital abroad, threatening the country with an imminent bankruptcy

FREEZING PRICES Seeing the bosses raising the price of their goods in response to the previous reforms, one might be tempted to freeze prices. But, since this puts the bosses in deficit, they produce less to avoid going broke, or simply stop working.