WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY News Journal Update - (en) Italy, UCADI #172 - What's new - Pizzo di Stato (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 In Catania (the place is not accidental), the prime minister defined taxes

as "state lace". From anarchist communists and historic enemies of the
state, understood as the business committee of the ruling classes. We
should be happy and agree with you, but we are not. We have learned since
the birth of the welfare state that the role of institutions is and can be
very different in various contexts, enriching the theoretical analysis of
the state that was carried out by Bakunin, highlighting its role in the
exercise of capitalist and bourgeois domination, as manager of conflicts
and war against peoples. Let it be clear our struggle against the liberal
and class state remains, We are aware that the Welfare State, with the
corollary of the State-entrepreneur, represents the mode of management of
the contemporary State in democratic capitalist countries and we are well
aware that this presence is generally accompanied by an attitude of
intervention and direction in economic life, both legislative level, both
through economic planning and programming, and through public enterprises.
It is certain that in such a system neither exploitation nor inequalities
disappear, but we also know that to carry out these tasks resources are
needed which can only be found by obtaining resources from the richest in
order to redistribute them.
Well, in this scheme of social organization, the collection of taxes is the
only instrument through which to finance these services and it is for this
reason that we consider the collection of taxes appropriate and necessary.
They do not constitute the state protection money, as the premier has
defined them, but the insufficient and unequal instrument for distributing
well-being and implementing solidarity. We rather criticize the
effectiveness of taxes in rebalancing wealth and we maintain who it is that
taxation should be progressive and much more effective than when it occurs,
as indeed the republican constitution itself maintains.
Pizzo, we well know, is a sum of money extorted to repay the "protection"
granted by a friend and arises from a relationship of power, a violence
imposed by force, also resorting to murder: nothing comparable despite,
every rhetorical effort, to taxes understood as a manifestation of
solidarity and as payment of the tribute of everyone in society.
We are convinced that even in a society that tends towards anarchy and
therefore towards equality in freedom, to give to everyone according to
their needs (this is communism!), forms of redistribution of resources will
be necessary to achieve this goal, yes call them taxes or social solidarity
contributions.
This is why the statements of the Prime Minister seem unacceptable even to
us, enemies of the bourgeois and liberal state, of a state that is an
instrument of capital to achieve its objectives. Having said that, the
discussion should be moved to the merits of each tax for which payment is
requested, but this is a political and social struggle that prescinds from
resorting to equating it with the mafia practice. From this point of view,
tax evaders are enemies of the community no more or less than those who
squander, steal, disperse, perpetrate the proceeds that come from taxes.
Finally, there remains the contradiction constituted by defining either the
State as a mafia association which demands and extorts from whoever the
State should represent and is at the top of the Government. We leave this
problem to those who manage power and thus define themselves as part, or
rather the head, of a mafia association, perhaps thinking of the political
organization they preside over.

http://www.ucadi.org/2023/06/19/cosa-ce-di-nuovo-pizzo-di-stato/
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