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Margaret Atwood

“Lest you think that this pattern has occurred only in connection with Jewish moneylenders and the Knights Templar, let me remind you of Idi Amin’s expulsion of the East Indians from Uganda in 1972, the East Indians were highly represented in the banking business and of the treatment of the ethnic Chinese in Vietnam in the 1970s, including their expulsion. Whenever you have an out-group to whom an in-group owes a lot of money, “Kill the Creditors” remains an available though morally repugnant way of cancelling your debts. Note: you need not resort to murder as such. If you make people run away very fast, they’ll leave all their stuff behind, and then you can grab it. And burn the debt records: that goes without saying.
You’ll notice I got through this part without mentioning the Nazis. The point being that I didn’t have to. For they have not been alone.”

Margaret Atwood, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
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Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (The CBC Massey Lectures) Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth by Margaret Atwood
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