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Re: Gold, Strom und Essen in der Krise / Vorgeschmack / Artikel Argentinien

verfasst von JÃœKÃœ, 13.06.2002, 16:47

Dazu vielleicht dieser Artikel, wenn auch nicht ganz beim Thema:
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http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=976

A People's Economic Revolution

 

by Harry Valentine

[Posted June 13, 2002]

[img][/img] People's
revolutions generally have their origins in inappropriate governmental behavior.
This behavior may be exploitative, it may be oppressive, tyrannical, or even
despotic. In rare instances, the opportunity may present itself whereby the
people may rise up and overthrow an otherwise unpopular government. Not all
successful uprisings, such as the Bolshevik Revolution or Iran's anti-American
revolution, are to the long-term advantage of all citizens.

The recent monetary and economic upheavals in Argentina,
caused by state behavior in the monetary system, now make that country ripe for
a peaceful people's economic revolution. The foundational ideas of such a
revolution have been written up in the works of economists such as the late
Murray Rothbard. Rothbard argued that an absence of forcible coercion in human
relations and freedom of peaceful action would form the basis of a free society
as well as a viable free-market economy.

The meltdown of Argentina's monetary system leaves the bulk of
the population there with little choice but to peacefully take economic control
away from their government, through a nationwide informal or underground economy.
Ludwig von Mises advised in his writings that people would revert to bartering
in the event of monetary destabilization.

In recent weeks, large numbers Argentineans have in fact been
turning to the underground economy as a means of economic survival. Most of the
participants may never even have heard of Mises or Rothbard, yet their ideas
offer hope to large masses of people who are willing to peacefully engage in a
voluntary exchange of goods and services.

In Argentina today, there exists a small number of people who
have actually read the works of Mises, Rothbard, and Hayek and are familiar as
to how these ideas and theories can apply to a real-world economic environment.
The central leadership idea offered implicitly by Rothbard's theories is that a
peaceful mass revolt and mass rejection against centralized economic power and
centralized economic control is possible through mass underground economic
action involving the majority of a nation's population.

This implicit idea can put the collective decision making of
the masses of individual people who are engaged in peaceful and private economic
planning in direct control of Argentina's economic recovery, as well as its
future economic evolution. Whereas political opponents may imprison a Mandela or
assassinate a Gandhi, a peaceful revolution led by a well-formulated idea
presents the opponent with a far more perplexing adversary.

A successful nationwide informal economy operating in
Argentina, one that benefits large masses of citizens, has the potential to
politically embarrass governments of other nations. The tools of production that
are available today are far more advanced and far more efficient than their
predecessors of bygone eras, when bartering flourished. Far higher individual
levels of productivity, involving large numbers of people, are possible today.
Modern computer technology enables accurate tracking of credits and debts
incurred in local regions by participants in the underground economy.

Argentina has a long history of oppressive governmental
behavior as well as of state economic misbehavior. Severe state action to combat
mass informal economic activity is almost a foregone conclusion, despite the
fact that over half of Argentina's 37 million overtaxed citizens live below the
poverty line.

Argentina's elitists, mercantilists, and statist parasites
would inevitable resort to oppressive measures to rob the masses of control of
their economic destiny. Foreign assistance to Argentinean governmental forces in
this regard is also a foregone conclusion, despite it having the potential of
precipitating a return to oppressive state behavior in areas beyond the economic
arena. Argentina's elitists are practically guaranteed support from players in
Washington and Brussels in this regard.

A nationwide informal economy in Argentina not only has the
potential to embarrass foreign political leaders, but it also has the potential
to illustrate to the citizens of the world that the masses could rise up against
statist economic oppression, in a people's economic revolution driven by the
ideas of Rothbard, Mises, and Hayek.

The well-being of the majority of a nation's economically
disenfranchised citizens could be realized without any state control of the
nation's money supply or state regulation of peaceful economic activity. It is a
lesson that the IMF, the World Bank, and a few national leaders would prefer
that it never be illustrated in the real world. It is a lesson that could
inspire entire populations of economically disadvantaged citizens living
elsewhere in the not-so-free world to wrest control of the economy away >from
the statist elitists.

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Harry Valentine, a commentator on economic issues, lives in
Canada. Send him MAIL.



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