Peter Sloterdijk: Cleptocracia estatal, economía filantrópico-capitalista y genealogía del orgullo (Thymos). Debate en torno a la fundamentación democrática de los impuestos.

Abstract

The extent of the controversy Sloterdijk

erupted between some European intellectuals

after declaring their dissent against paying

income taxes on the grounds that obligation a

form of "state kleptocracy" is analyzed. Its

starting point is to stop considering citizens

They are something the State, to catalog their

tax contributions and donations. the wealthier

mandatory taxes should be replaced by

voluntary donations granted jointly to the

community. the community, ideally, would

become a virtuous self-regulatory organization,

whose global relations can it is based on a

philanthropic capitalist macroeconomics in

interaction with a generous global tax status.

And if it is a fact that solidarity grows among

the neediest, also would be expected samples

liberality among the wealthiest, a kind of

philanthropy that become strong thymos in

prevalence, the primordial pride, genuinely

heroic and prestigious reason for these free

givers, volunteers taxpayers. And conversely,

selfishness and greed behave pisco-spiritually

contempt than themselves petty owners of

large and very great wealth, contempt, in the

sense of the Platonic doctrine of thymos, is

entirely legitimate, they profess and that the

soul of the wealthy is attacking itself rightly

not find the exit when the circle of insatiability.