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The well-known British anthropologist Edmund leach, in his famous study on the Kachin of the time Burma (now Myanmar), highlighted how the same group could have created and adopted two different political systems. The Kachin studied by Leach alternated different models generally after one of the two went into crisis. After practicing the aristocratic system for some time Gumsa, made up of leaders, moved to a more democratic system, said gumlao, based on the communities of town. Everything continued in a continuous alternation according to the contingent moment.
This curiosity came back to my mind political displacements, witnessing the painful ballet of bounces between Regions me government and between (certain) businessmen and the government in these times of pandemic. In fact, the so-called “governors” have often competed to see who is more autonomist than the other, striving to ask “freedom” of action, eager to free themselves from the oppressive yoke of the centralized state. When it came to taking responsibility, making decisions, suddenly, with a speed that would make the Kachin envious, they immediately rushed to delegate the central government assume those responsibilities that would have corresponded to them. Bottom line: when it goes well, we adopt the federal system, when it goes wrong, we let the state do the job.
Those small tribes of the Burmese plateau also seem to have inspired certain representatives of the Confindustria, particularly the free-market corifei, who have always poorly tolerated any state interference in your business. With an equation (wrong) in which liberalism equals total freedom, they pursue the benefit in every way, then the invisible hand takes care of repairing the damage. Then comes the virus and the mythical omnipresent and omnipotent market collapses in a few months and then it’s up to the State to fix things. So you can also pretend to forget that you are liberal and capitalist, the state you must guarantee us lost earnings, should help companies …
I don’t know why, but I felt younger for a few moments when the word “socialism” it had not yet been banned, not even by the left. When a company was proposed that would reduce the inequalities, which redistributed the resources. It is curious that similar hypotheses today come from the industrialists, but perhaps among the Confindustria consultants there is some Kachin, who suggests to his clients that it is good to alternate organizational models: when we have to win we become capitalists, when it goes bad, better a socialism healthy.
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