Il Banchiere Anarchico

The confessions of a powerful and wealthy banker who, during his birthday party, reveals to his only diner that he shares the anarchist ideology, while explaining his motives.

At the end of a dinner in his unadorned armoured palace, a very powerful banker frugally celebrates his birthday. The occasion becomes an opportunity to satisfy the sole diner’s (and perhaps only friend’s) curiosity about his mysterious but irresistible rise to enormous wealth. A son of the people, the banker argues that his economic empire originates from a desire for an evolved social struggle, which must be waged in solitude, but is no less radical than the ideology of those who profess to be hard-core anarchists. The banker argues that the act of isolating oneself is the only way to lead a truly revolutionary life, for a political militancy superior to that of his old comrades in rebellion whom he now apostrophises as ‘the whores of libertarian doctrine’. The man stuns his guest with a learned sophistical exposition steeped in incendiary ideas against the injustices of the bourgeoisie and fierce denunciations of the overpowering deadly poison that undermines our freedom from within: money. Money that the banker has unscrupulously and unregulatedly hoarded. To be free, he claims. Shamelessly.