Piketty's book "Capital in the 21st Century" put a huge crack in my liberal ideology, and I only read the first few chapters. Namely, when he pointed out how doggedly persistent the flow of capital was from poor to rich outside of WW2 and the black plague, it made me realize how inadequate liberal politics were to solve it. After that, it was easy for me to see through the DNC's machinations when they fucked Bernie over, which is when I went truly radical.

Piketty, advertantly or inadvertantly, puts stuff out that van awaken class consciousness