Comrades! Let us cast our gaze upon the wretched state of housing in Moscow, where the parasitic class of rentiers continues to extract tribute from the toil of the working man. A certain 'expert' of the estate-agency guild, one Natalia Pereskokova, has seen fit to announce that the most sought-after dwellings are those wretchedly small studios and one-room apartments.

Pray, observe the logic of the exploiters! They speak of 'liquidity' and 'market formats,' as if the basic human need for shelter were merely a chip in a gambler's game. These 'liquid' dwellings—compact cells where the proletariat is packed like herring—are rented with the utmost haste, not because they offer comfort, but because the crushing weight of capital leaves the worker with no other recourse.

The bourgeois agent suggests that the speed of lease is determined by the 'quality of repair' or the 'location.' Bah! This is but a veil to hide the systemic oppression! The true driver is the desperation of those who have been stripped of their means of production and are now forced to pay a monthly tithe to a landlord who does nothing but collect gold.

Most heinous of all is the current financial climate. The usurers in the banks have raised their interest rates to such an extortionate level that the mortgage—that modern shackle—has become an impossible burden. Consequently, the masses are driven further into the arms of the rental monopolies. The high key rate is not a mere economic indicator; it is a whip used by the financial capital to ensure that the laborer never owns the roof over his head, remaining forever a tenant, forever exploited, and forever in debt to the ruling class.