ABSTRACT
Suicides due to inability to pay mortgages are fortunately not an everyday occurrence in Spain, although they have been more common in recent years. This chapter is about inequality and class struggle and warfare, which both engender and are engendered by events such as home-evictions. References to inequality can be found as far back as the fourth century BC, when Plato discussed both the inevitability and danger of inequality. Harvey sees a new form of accumulation at work - accumulation by dispossession - in the range of activities and practices carried out by governments and financial institutions, which have the function of transferring wealth from the less well-off to the wealthy. Home-evictions and escraches are, without a doubt, material events involving the physical presence of actors and physical spaces. Inequality and class struggle and warfare are on the rise around the world, and in particular in countries such as Spain, where the recession has hit particularly hard.
