Day 15: Rent's Due

I’ve been thinking about this rentier frenzy from a Soviet perspective.

It’s day 15 of the COVID-19 lockdown here in Los Angeles. And rent, like everywhere in America, is clearly becoming a central issue. There have been sporadic attempts here by renter organization to push for some sort of rent cancellation and forgiveness during the crisis — and there was even a honking drive-by protest outside of the mayor’s mansion that…