Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present

by Yanis Varoufakis

J. S. Mill, once wrote that landlords ‘grow richer, as it were in their sleep, without working, risking or economizing … In what would they have been wronged,’ Mill wondered, ‘if society had, from the beginning, reserved the right of taxing the spontaneous increases of rent, to the highest amount required by financial exigencies?’

‘As Lenin said, politics is about who does what to whom, nothing more.