[Cross Posted at Polycentric Order]
Italian Tax Evaders 2008, Romano Prodi & Silvio Berlusconi 0
The question of the breadth and power of the Italian counter-economy requires no scrutiny or test, it is well known that tax evaders, illegal immigrants, smugglers, and black market entrepreneurs alike call “the boot” a kind of safe haven where the cops are either too drunk to chase or too corrupt to care. Whether the Anarcho-Individualistic flare of the Italian people, the entrepreneurial history of the Italian peninsula, or just a general intellectual superiority that undermines the boorish slave mentality of other Europeans under the beast of leviathan, Italians do not like, consent to, or even pay their taxes! Indeed, if we Agorists are looking for a ripe country to inhabit, a model to forge a movement after, or a people to take a lesson from, we would do well to pay attention to the Italians.
In recent events, however, it seems that the Italian government has decided to cross a line – to change the rules. Posting a list of tax evaders on a website, with personal information available for exploitation in a modern age of identity theft, the Republican guard has all but declared war on the people they claim to “represent”! What an outrage! Che cazzo!
Still, however, instead of complaining about the injustices of the government playing dirty when Italians begin to stand up for themselves against their extortionists when they demand their money, what seems to be a viable solution? As an Agorist, it seems obvious develop the counter-economy past its very rudimentary stage in Italia. Absolutely, Italia’s counter-economy does not grow for the same reason that Samuel Edward Konkin III showed that the Russian counter-economy, under Communist Stalin, did not fulfill the Agorist steps to revolution – they either did not have the full revolutionary or entrepreneurial spirits about them, or they simply lived outside of the regular economy when at all expedient, returning, in mind and body, to the statist affairs as soon as their “plunder” was made. Yes, let this be a lesson to all Agorists and proto-Agorists, for in Italia, though the entrepreneurial spirit is ripe and the capacity in capital there, the pure philosophy of Agorism has not yet sunk its teeth into the Tuscan hills or the Sicilian Mountains. Yes, if only Agorism as an ideology were to spread throughout the countryside of the Italian peninsula, the opportunity for a counter-economic safe haven seems unparalleled – if any country was ready for an Agorist revolution, it would be the Southern Mediterranean nation of Italia.
4 comments:
Don't count us Ruskies out yet!
One question pertaining to Italy (or Russia, for that matter) that concerns me, and which I'm sure others will ask is "What about the Mafia?"
Yes, it's possible that the popular conception of them is distorted by media and law enforcement propaganda, and that "organized crime" groups might not be as thoroughly red-market as we've come to think. Maybe they do mostly sell legitimate protection service, or avoid that area entirely. I know that there's certainly a lot more to the underground economy (all underground economies) than just the stereotypical organized crime. Perhaps the attention paid to them is just romanticisism, like the alleged violence of the American West.
You obviously know more about italy than I do. What's your opinion?
Well, it depends upon what you mean by "the Mafia." In a sense, there is no Mafia. No specific organization exists calling itself "the Mafia" and most of the actions made by members of what might be considered "the Mafia" are completely justified in a libertarian framework. For the most part, that is, extortion is a great rarity in Italia - I'm not sure about Russia.
In many cases, Italians associated with "organized crime" work under a system of specified justices and customary laws under the wings of entrepreneurs that have made a great living by associating and organizing enterprises under the nose of the state - and even directly flaunting in front of it.
The biggest money makers for Italians tend to be in smuggling to avoid tariffs and excise taxes, drugs, guns, and gambling. In some other instances extortion does occur, but only on the part of rogue crews that are eventually reigned in by other Capii. In fact after Riina Italians have mainly focused in white-collar business crimes - avoiding taxes, tariffs, etc.
In all actuality, Italians are QUITE Anarachistic and members such as Bernardo Provenzano have even pushed for the removal of the Italian government's 41 bis as an inhumane law against prisoners of the state.
There have even been reports of a Ten Commandments within the Organization that are very libertarian.
For example, "Money cannot be appropriated if it belongs to others or to other families."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7086716.stm
Well, this certainly paints a very different picture of Mafia organizations than the one I'm accustomed to. So was Riina an anomoly for the most part?
I'll have to look into the Italian situation myself.
Thanks for the info.
articolo davvero interessante...
potresti darmi la traduzione in italiano??
un saluto
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