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ery of centralized planning, and its attempted monopoly of the scarce and constantly more expensive offer of goods and services.
It would be a lie to deny that large parts of the
State’s breadbasket that are unavailable to the
majority are being looted, right along with its finances, thanks to the power that has been usurped
by those scofflaws who are constantly entering
into and becoming wealthy from the black market. In some dishonest way, many of these values
that are prohibited for most in society have filtered into their homes. All this goes on without
the totalitarian State getting anything at all—retribution or monetary compensation—from this
clandestine activity and sale of goods. The most
important thing about all this is the impact so
anomalous and turbulent a relationship as the one
described has on our already mistreated human
nature.
It is not possible to measure the devastating effect
of the pressure of these two antagonistic, economic powers on everyday people. It knocks
them down and drags them, and they are unable

to resist. They also face other consequences from
this un-civilizing process. At this time, and given
our interpersonal and survival relations, its is becoming extremely difficult to avoid being
cheated, robbed, mistreated or abused, either by
the State or our compatriots. This is very real.
Like it or not, scruples become lax when constant
outrages and excesses damage people’s souls.
This increases mistrust and suspicion, and promotes a disproportionate amount of personally violent behavior.
Notes:
1-Henceforth, read this as an abbreviation for a
‘one party-bureacratic, repressive and military
mechanism of repression,’ in contrast to the republican conceptual and natural division of State,
government and homeland.
2-In the 1980s, an even more chaotic financial
phenomenon took place: the coexistence of several currencies at one time, all imposed by the
State for different purposes.

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