Bold in my Breeches

People always ask me, Rebecca, why do you like pirates? Fuck off and read scavengers.... What did pirates do with their share of the booty? As soon as they were on land they acquired everything they needed for survival in the next weeks. The rest they used to eat, drink, pay whores, and play cards for a few days, until there was nothing left (ever hung out with me? if so this should sound familiar) . Then it was time to set sail again. The sea robbers nearly always gave away their money on land.. as quickly as they had got it. Among pirates money reached the highest speed of circulation ever recorded in the whole economic history. You see my whorish capitalist.. In contrast to merchants, that would be most of you, pirates assigned no special value to money. Most pirates died at sea from disease or fighting, their concern was never to plunder in order to become rich, the goal was instead to gain booty as quickly as possible with the least possible effort, so to fritter it away quickly. They never served like most in their time, and never to acquisition wealth. Unlike nobility, pirates knew nothing of economics, possessions or capital accumulation. Pirates, of all people, could have ended up the wealthiest of women/men in their time, but riches meant little to pirates. Riches consisted of meaningless production for the sake of production, and therefore would require power, exploitation, and class society. The true pirate holds property in contempt because it has nothing to do with the desire of freedom. Actually, it is an obstacle to that desire. A true pirate is well aware of the danger that the accumulation of goods represents to a life of freedom and equality. This type of life is by no means primitive, backwards, or underdeveloped; but it is anti-statist and anti-authorative in nature. To possess more than ones neighbor, to produce more, to be richer than the poor, developes the desire for property, which is ultimately the desire for power, which is everything this life loathes. SOCIETIES, LIKE THOSE OF PIRATES, ARE SOCIETIES WITHOUT ECONOMY OUT OF REFUSAL OF ECONOMY. Damn those who submit to be governed by laws which rich men have made for their own securities.