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The Politics of Anarchy: Socialists regard disorder as a means to an end: government control.<\/a><\/p>\n

Anarchists detonated a bomb in 1920 at J.P. Morgan & Co.\u2019s headquarters at 23 Wall St., killing 38 and wounding more than 100. Scars from that bombing are still visible today. So are anarchists. As the little girl said in \u201cPoltergeist II,\u201d \u201cThey\u2019re back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Will new socialist New York City mayor\u00a0Zohran Mamdani\u00a0lead to disorder? Free party buses and no cops! Here\u2019s a hint: He tweeted in 2020, \u201cTaxation isn\u2019t theft. Capitalism is.\u201d How about a 100% tax rate, comrade?<\/p>\n

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Anarchy is in the air.\u00a0Alex Soros\u00a0celebrated the New York mayoral result by tweeting, \u201cThe American dream continues!\u201d His father\u2019s Open Society Foundations have a history of funding anarchy-producing criminal-justice reforms and antipolice movements. Some American dream.<\/p>\n

Why anarchy and destruction of social order? Always ask: Who benefits? The breaking down of society is a means to an end\u2014the long game of political control. Citizens scream, \u201cSave me!\u201d This isn\u2019t new. The Reichstag fire. Food shortages driving a Bolshevik uprising. Pandemic riots. Anarchy works. I have no love for czars, but control often passes to political systems that are much worse. Socialism. Communism. Authoritarian control. Only the new rulers are better off.<\/p>\n

But wait, isn\u2019t society crumbling? Haven\u2019t you heard that costs are skyrocketing, jobs are hard to find, late-stage capitalism is failing and the source of all evil? Many youths think, \u201cSocialism, save me!\u201d But there\u2019s always economic upheaval. Unlike anarchy, economic chaos is driven by creative destruction, and productivity is a long-term plus. It generates societal wealth by breaking down a sclerotic status quo and bringing better living standards. Anarchy destroys wealth to grab power.<\/p>\n

The 1970s were dismal. In 1976 the Sex Pistols released \u201cAnarchy in the U.K.,\u201d which goes: \u201cDon\u2019t know what I want, but I know how to get it\u00a0\/ I wanna destroy passersby.\u201d In \u201cGod Save the Queen,\u201d Johnny Rotten sang, \u201cNo future, no future for you.\u201d It resonated. Jobs were scarce, inflation was roaring, unions ruled, schools failed to educate. Sound familiar?<\/p>\n

Today undereducated (and economically illiterate) youths, along with a quieter illegal-immigrant population, are complaining about no future. Will socialists and anarchy save them? Hardly. It wasn\u2019t anarchists that ended the \u201970s malaise. It was a different type of voter-frustration regime change that upended the status quo: free-marketers like\u00a0Margaret Thatcher\u00a0and\u00a0Ronald Reagan. Constructionists, not anarchists.<\/p>\n

Still, disorder sells. I\u2019ve noticed the\u00a0New York Times<\/a>\u00a0now labels the 2020\u00a0George Floyd\u00a0riots as \u201cbroadly peaceful protests\u201d because CNN\u2019s \u201cmostly peaceful protests\u201d was ridiculed so badly. Anarchy ruled in Seattle\u2019s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in 2020 and in the smelly Occupy Wall Street encampments of 2011. Add to the list the Jan. 6, 2021, mouth breathers who stormed the Capitol.<\/p>\n

The recent (partially funded by Iran) campus protests and progressive support of Hamas terrorists in Gaza and further Middle East unrest is all about anarchy. Same for\u00a0Greta Thunberg\u2019s Omnicause of grievances. Europe was left behind because of green spending. Anarchy, especially during cold winters. Again, why? Who benefits?<\/p>\n

Now New York, Chicago, Portland and gerrymandered California are headed in that direction. Statists and soft-on-crime weak-knees enable anarchy. Like Orwellian newspeak, they instill nonsense like pregnant men and an existential climate apocalypse until even\u00a0Bill Gates<\/a>\u00a0calls bull hockey.<\/p>\n

Open borders and sanctuary cities create more anarchy. Anarchists are antieducation. Antigrowth. Antiprogress. Anticapitalist. Bring on a new social order, it takes a village, we\u2019ll make the decisions, not you. Trump tariff chaos has a whiff of this. Maybe it\u2019s why the left hates him so much\u2014he\u2019s executing their game plan better than they are.<\/p>\n

It feels like the desired endgame is an overthrow of existing regimes for a more squishy communal paradise. That\u2019s been tried, and instead autocrats take over and crush dissent, boots on throats.<\/p>\n

Yes, we need change. Society always does. Progress never sleeps. But we need change driven by the next wave, which has its fits and starts. And those who were left behind: Luddites. Buggy-whip manufacturers. Local department stores. Phone operators and bank tellers. And now artificial-intelligence-threatened graphic designers, coders, teachers, lawyers and doctors.<\/p>\n

Some confuse this for anarchy. It isn\u2019t. Instead of entropy (physicists\u2019 definition of disorder) you get productivity and enthalpy (more energy) in the form of societal wealth and progress.<\/p>\n

Anarchists want to tear society down and revert to a more feudal world. Will we see the equivalent of New York\u2019s early-1990s crack dens? Hope not. Instead, let entrepreneurs and capital markets thrive, build order and create opportunities for everyone from the lowest to highest rungs of the economic ladder, and move society toward a higher purpose. Health, wealth, happiness. Work hard, play hard instead of asking for free stuff. It\u2019s better than \u201cNo future for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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