33: CRITICAL RENT THEORY (24.04.2022)
b"The fellas are back with a reading about the housing crisis. The first article, from the Financial Times, traces the origins of the crisis in Britain to Thatcher's 'Right to Buy' scheme, but also the less well remembered New Labour creation from whole cloth of the 'buy-to-let' private rental sector (and the ballooning landlord class) as we know it. The second article comes courtesy of the Guardian, who are demonstrably invoking a new Maoist Land Reform Movement, by asking\\u2014WILL SOMEONE PLEASE CONSIDER THE POOR LANDLORDS? Come with us on a journey through this Tiny Tim Nation and let us poison your mind with CRT (critical rent theory) while we pack up our stuff and move into a future that will be either socialism or barbarism (but more likely the latter).\\n\\nNext week, we'll start releasing \\u2060The Housing Monster\\u2060, written by an anonymous construction worker for the website prole.info where you can download the ebook for free. [www.prole.info] You can listen to Ben read it here in four instalments in the coming weeks.\\n\\nSubscribe to the \\u2060Spaghetti For Brains newsletter\\u2060 for new writing and updates: www.spaghettiforbrains.com"