ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an interview with Thomas Piketty. Piketty says that his classes are continuous and multidimensional, but they do have class interests and general class conflict. Worker ownership is one way to spread the private ownership of capital. Piketty also believes in worker involvement in decision making irrespective of any capital stake, such as Germany. According to Piketty, public ownership of capital assets has proved to be the adequate mode of organization in many sectors with publicly provided services, such as education and health. He also sees virtues in forms of ownerships that are intermediate between public and private, and that involve new forms of participatory governance, particularly in culture and the medias. Anglo-American nations have been more receptive to progressive income and wealth taxes than the Continental nations because a very significant part of wealth redistribution was in effect achieved through war destructions, so there was less of a need for steeply progressive taxation.
