“Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, Governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some . . . Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction,
and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.”
John Maynard Keynes, in the short period before he became a fully cynical left wing asshole (if there was such a period).
Here is one series of pieces I wrote a while back. Keynes is discussed in one, but the more important pieces detail how inflation is theft, and how to stop it, and in an optimal scenario, reverse much of its harm.
https://goodnessmovement.com/Page14.html