The French economist, Thomas Piketty, is the author of "Le Capital au XXle siecle". Paris 2013. Addresses the relationship of social inequality produced by inheritance, income and mainly by the process of capitalist accumulation, with emphasis on the analysis of Europe and the United States. Inequality is not casual, but the characteristic feature of capitalism.
About Erich Hobsbawm, before his death he said that the Western economy of neoliberalism has deliberately subordinated welfare and social justice to the tyranny of GDP (Gross Domestic Product), the potential economic growth, deliberately inegalitarian.
For its part, the Oxfam Intermón analysis group, produced a document sent to the wealthy businessmen and bankers gathered in Davos in January 2014, where in its conclusions highlights: "Governing for the elites is the same as kidnapping of democracy and economic inequality" : 85 rich people have the same money as 3.570 million poor people in the world.
Nobel laureates J. Stiglitz and P. Krugman have shown that the money they received from governments to save their banks and companies have not been used to generate jobs, which the super-rich claim when they are attacked in some way. Of course, they entered the global financial wheel that yields much more without the need to work.
In Brazil, Mario Pochmann in his work "Atlas of Social Exclusivity in Brazil" (2004), points out that twenty thousand families live by placing their wealth in financial circuits, gaining from speculation. For his part, Piketti also points out that in order to reduce inequalities, the severe intervention of the State and the application of progressive taxes on wealth up to 80% is necessary, which horrifies the super-rich.
That is the struggle between democracy and neoliberal capitalism, for that reason, they do not believe in elections but when they win, consequently, to tackle this struggle becomes necessary and urgent to achieve the well-being of the entire population.