Comrade Anarchist
10th September 2011, 14:51
Someone asked me don't i like the mafia and organized crime once. The answer is in the movies yes. But in reality no and it is an idiotic claim lobbed at individualist and capitalist anarchists way too much.
Organized Crime is a creation of the state. How do they survive??? By providing a service or product that is illegal. So the state makes something illegal, so the supply becomes scarce and therefore very valuable to provide. Since the product or service is illegal customers have to use the few suppliers within their area. And since they have no accountability or fear of the consumer they can operate violently. We can see that in history the government's puritanism has been exploited. The obvious case is the outlawing of alcohol in the early 20th century. The government made it illegal and crooked politicians allied themselves with others willing to operate outside the law to provide this wonderful product. Consumers desperate for a drink had to use what was given them and questioning it could mean a number of things. Today drugs are the example. Todays war on drugs has failed and instead has allowed for huge gangs to come into being to provide this illegal need. This victim-less crime has cost the lives of thousands.
A free society wouldn't be ruled by gangs because there would be no rulers, that is the point of anarchism. Instead of throwing the rock our way throw it at the government. They are the ones outlawing these drugs for either puritanical reasons or profitable reasons. Once the puritanical reasons are gone they will legalize it and the gangs will cease in this respect and instead the crooked politicians will continue to monopolize on the fact that big pharma is now manufacturing these drugs and then the gov't can put a sin tax on it and etc. Therefore you gang goes from being some south americans with uzis to the united states government.
Abolish the government and allow for the free trade of all substances and activities that are now illegal or monopolized and we will see the extinction of the organized crime.
Organized Crime is a creation of the state. How do they survive??? By providing a service or product that is illegal. So the state makes something illegal, so the supply becomes scarce and therefore very valuable to provide. Since the product or service is illegal customers have to use the few suppliers within their area. And since they have no accountability or fear of the consumer they can operate violently. We can see that in history the government's puritanism has been exploited. The obvious case is the outlawing of alcohol in the early 20th century. The government made it illegal and crooked politicians allied themselves with others willing to operate outside the law to provide this wonderful product. Consumers desperate for a drink had to use what was given them and questioning it could mean a number of things. Today drugs are the example. Todays war on drugs has failed and instead has allowed for huge gangs to come into being to provide this illegal need. This victim-less crime has cost the lives of thousands.
A free society wouldn't be ruled by gangs because there would be no rulers, that is the point of anarchism. Instead of throwing the rock our way throw it at the government. They are the ones outlawing these drugs for either puritanical reasons or profitable reasons. Once the puritanical reasons are gone they will legalize it and the gangs will cease in this respect and instead the crooked politicians will continue to monopolize on the fact that big pharma is now manufacturing these drugs and then the gov't can put a sin tax on it and etc. Therefore you gang goes from being some south americans with uzis to the united states government.
Abolish the government and allow for the free trade of all substances and activities that are now illegal or monopolized and we will see the extinction of the organized crime.