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As far as I can tell (I ran out of patience about halfway through), this is less a review of Capital than it is an attempt to brand Piketty part of a particular ideological lineage. It seems like for every sentence quoted from the book there's a couple of paragraphs name-dropping Marx, Aristotle, Malthus et. al..

Also:

> One begins to suspect that the typical leftist—most of the graver worries have come from there abouts, naturally, though not so very naturally considering the great payoff of “capitalism” for the working class—starts with a root conviction that capitalism is seriously defective. The conviction is acquired at age 16 years when the proto-leftist discovers poverty but has no intellectual tools to understand its source.

Seriously?