A similar problem is currently evident in the US: organized crime on an unprecedented scale is being portrayed as legitimate action by a state and legitimized as such by a legal system that is obviously complicit.
In addition to the massive consequences for citizens, this is evident in the absurd extent to which those responsible are enriching themselves - led by the president with his stay-out-of-prison carte blanche issued by the Supreme Court, but the entire government is benefiting just as massively as the regime’s billionaire partners.
This is usually called oligarchy or kleptocracy, but in essence it is simply organized crime taking place at the highest level of a country and thus giving itself a veneer of legitimacy. After all, it is only a crime if the corresponding court rulings are issued, which is fundamentally impossible in an unjust state. So…
A similar problem is currently evident in the US: organized crime on an unprecedented scale is being portrayed as legitimate action by a state and legitimized as such by a legal system that is obviously complicit.
In addition to the massive consequences for citizens, this is evident in the absurd extent to which those responsible are enriching themselves - led by the president with his stay-out-of-prison carte blanche issued by the Supreme Court, but the entire government is benefiting just as massively as the regime’s billionaire partners.
This is usually called oligarchy or kleptocracy, but in essence it is simply organized crime taking place at the highest level of a country and thus giving itself a veneer of legitimacy. After all, it is only a crime if the corresponding court rulings are issued, which is fundamentally impossible in an unjust state. So…