See esp. K. Scheve and D. Stasavage, Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe (Princeton University Press, 2016). On the crucial role of war in the history of inequality, see W. Scheidel, The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (Princeton University Press, 2017). 67. V. I. Lenin, in his classic
