Pills of OUR history (4). The relevance of 90 years ago...
"Every era has its Inquisition. Ours has the passport that replaces the tortures of medieval times. And unemployment."
from "The Dead Ship," the most famous story by B. Traven (an author at the time of several bestsellers in the adventure novel genre and a pseudonym, behind which, it is likely, hid Ret Marut, director of the unfortunately brief experience of the Bavarian Soviet Republic, who fled Germany following the repression of the nationalist Freikorps led by the social democracy, from which, however, some of the most notable figures, Eisner, Landauer, and Levine, would not escape).