Mas Molinari foi muito mais que isso: foi um defensor da liberdade individual no ninho do ainda incipiente mas aguerrido movimento colectivista-marxista, tendo exaltado o valor de uma sociedade formada por homens livres contra a criação do «homem-novo» socialista, talvez porque previsse qual o seu custo, bem como qual o seu desfecho.
Percebeu também, e esse o ponto neste post, que o Capitalismo já não era então um capitalismo de laissez-faire, mas uma espécie de cruzamento entre um neo-mercantilismo e crony-capitalism, juntos num sistema económico aparentemente competitivo mas no qual, verdadeiramente, eram os grandes conglomerados quem controlavam já a seu bel-prazer as políticas económicas e decidiam até quando se firmava a paz ou se declarava a guerra. Vejamos um excerto de um seu texto:
"Every
State includes a governing class and a governed class. The former is interested
in the immediate multiplication of employments open to its members, whether
these be harmful or useful to the State, and also desires to remunerate these
officials at the best possible rate. But the majority of the nation, the
governed class, pays for the officials, and its only desire is to support the
least necessary number. A State of War, implying an unlimited power of
disposition over the lives and goods of the majority, allows the governing
class to increase State employments at will—that is, to increase its own sphere
of employment. A considerable portion of this sphere is found in the
destructive apparatus of the civilised State—an organism which grows with every
advance in the power of the rivals. In time of peace the army supports a
hierarchy of professional soldiers, whose career is highly esteemed, and is
assured if not particularly remunerative. In time of war the soldier obtains an
additional remuneration, more glory, and an increased hope of professional
advancement, and these advantages more than compensate the risks which he is
compelled to undergo. In this way a State of War continues to be profitable
both to the governing class as a whole, and to those officials who administer
and officer the army."
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