Mensajepor Nadie » Mié Nov 11, 2015 8:31 pm
"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation,governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security, but at confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth. Those to whom the system brings windfalls, beyond their deserts and even beyond their expectations or desires, become 'profiteers,' who are the object of the hatred of the bourgeoisie, whom the inflationism has impoverished, not less than of the proletariat. As the inflation proceeds and the real value of the currency fluctuates wildly from month to month, all permanent relations between debtors and creditors, which form the ultimate foundation of capitalism, become so utterly disordered as to be almost meaningless; and the process of wealth-getting degenerates into a gamble and a lottery.
Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose."
Y sigue. Zarpado como lo que Keynes dice con respecto a las economías europeas post 1º Guerra Mundial se aplica perfectamente a escenarios actuales. Me pareció estar leyendo sobre Argentina y no sobre esas sociedades destruidas por la guerra de hace 100 años atrás. En otros apartados describe perfectamente las consecuencias de la inflación y como suelen tratarla los gobiernos, señalando de manera errónea a especuladores (los pocos que se enriquecen en procesos inflacionarios) como los causantes de la inflación cuando en verdad son una consecuencia de la misma.
A mi me parece mentira cómo hoy en día están alardeando del "desendeudamiento" mientras por otro lado emiten sin parar... O como apuntan a realizar una redistribución de ingresos cuando la inflación apunta hacia el lado opuesto.