That’s is not entirely true. Both in America and in Europe (i’m not sure about other areas), there’s a long history of private industry harassing, intimidating and violently beating landowners and indigenous communities in order to steal their land. Here is an example for France as recent as 2005 (this one was a national outcry, but the practice is more common).
About rent debts, the situation is somewhat different. I agree the State is the violent apparatus that’s going to take away your possessions/home eventually. However, in public housing i don’t know of any case of mafia-like intimidation/eviction (these go through courts), while that is a common occurrence in the private housing sector. Source: i’ve been personally two times attacked by a landlord (a different one each time) with some mafia-like people, and i know many more people who have been through this, including some who lost their home in the process because the owner knew someone without a home or money did not have the resources to challenge them in the tribunal.
The only landlord which obtained its land by force and obtains its rents by threats of violence is the state.
That’s is not entirely true. Both in America and in Europe (i’m not sure about other areas), there’s a long history of private industry harassing, intimidating and violently beating landowners and indigenous communities in order to steal their land. Here is an example for France as recent as 2005 (this one was a national outcry, but the practice is more common).
About rent debts, the situation is somewhat different. I agree the State is the violent apparatus that’s going to take away your possessions/home eventually. However, in public housing i don’t know of any case of mafia-like intimidation/eviction (these go through courts), while that is a common occurrence in the private housing sector. Source: i’ve been personally two times attacked by a landlord (a different one each time) with some mafia-like people, and i know many more people who have been through this, including some who lost their home in the process because the owner knew someone without a home or money did not have the resources to challenge them in the tribunal.