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US govt and media whitewash Nazi Holocaust citing debunked ‘Black Book of Communism’ - The Grayzone

https://thegrayzone.com/2017/11/22/black-book-of-communism-debunked-antisemitic-nazis

“Landlords’ right has its origin in robbery.” “The landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for the natural produce of the earth.”

“The rent of land, it may be thought, is frequently no more than a reasonable profit or interest for the stock laid out by the landlord upon its improvement. This, no doubt, may be partly the case upon some occasions.... The landlord demands” “a rent even for unimproved land, and the supposed interest or profit upon the expense of improvement is generally an addition to this original rent.” “Those improvements, besides, are not always made by the stock of the landlord, but sometimes by that of the tenant. When the lease comes to be renewed, however, the landlord commonly demands the same augmentation of rent as if they had been all made by his own.” “He sometimes demands rent for what is altogether incapable of human improvement.”

― 1776, Adam Smith, pioneer of political economy, "The Wealth of Nations"

“According to the political economists themselves, the landlord’s interest is inimically opposed to the interest of the tenant farmer – and thus already to a significant section of society.”

“As the landlord can demand all the more rent from the tenant farmer the less wages the farmer pays, and as the farmer forces down wages all the lower the more rent the landlord demands, it follows that the interest of the landlord is just as hostile to that of the farm workers as is that of the manufacturers to their workers. He likewise forces down wages to the minimum.”

“Since a real reduction in the price of manufactured products raises the rent of land, the landowner has a direct interest in lowering the wages of industrial workers, in competition amongst the capitalists, in over-production, in all the misery associated with industrial production.”

“While, thus, the landlord’s interest, far from being identical with the interest of society, stands inimically opposed to the interest of tenant farmers, farm labourers, factory workers and capitalists, on the other hand, the interest of one landlord is not even identical with that of another, on account of competition.”

― 1884, Karl Marx, critic of political economy, "Das Kapital"

“There are men who, through ownership of land, are able to make others pay for the privilege of being allowed to exist and to work. These landowners are idle, and I might therefore be expected to praise them. Unfortunately, their idleness is only rendered possible by the industry of others; indeed their desire for comfortable idleness is historically the source of the whole gospel of work. The last thing they have ever wished is that others should follow their example.”

“For my part, while I am as convinced a Socialist as the most ardent Marxian, I do not regard Socialism as a gospel of proletarian revenge, nor even, primarily, as a means of securing economic justice. I regard it primarily as an adjustment to machine production demanded by considerations of common sense, and calculated to increase the happiness, not only of proletarians, but of all except a tiny minority of the human race.”

― 1935, Bertrand Russell, author of Principia Mathematica, "In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays"

“Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights.”

― 1949, Albert Einstein, developed the theory of relativity, "Why Socialism?"

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Interesting take. Definitely such opinion is so foreign for me considering we have an averagely low tax here (comparable to usa) but much more comprehensive public healthcare, which work alongside heavily regulated private healthcare.

However, our public healthcare have been heavily underfunded the past few years and there were idea to reform it (which gets a lot of opposition, obviously).

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