From dictionary.com: Statism – the principle or policy of concentrating extensive economic, political, and related controls in the state at the cost of individual liberty.
The extremists who have supported government currencies and their subsequent headlong foreign interventions fancy themselves the saviors of civilization, but these myopic apparatchiks to their cousin, collectivism, may invoke the chaos they fear so much, precisely because they are control freaks of the first order.
The so called ‘order’ of the state is to demand legitimacy and enforce the proposition with the threat of violence or actual violence. Resistance is futile. One must comply to the so called rules or risk marginalization via ostracization. It’s no wonder that youthful protest often raises the black flag of anarchy in its quixotic protestations at government summits designed to concentrate economic and political power in the hands of the few.
Now whether one is a nefarious banker or just an instructor at a public school, the complicity is manifest in the acceptance of the ‘state’ as the purchaser of one’s own economic security. If money is defined and manipulated by government through the machinations of a central bank and its subsequent fiat currency based on fractional reserves, then certainly extending the grand illusion of the debt ceiling makes defining order paramount. The messy facts about taxation as theft or hideously distorted reasoning about public goods theory in relation to monstrous bureaucracies is quite irrelevant if economic Armageddon is at our doorstep.
Let’s face it, tea parties are for little girls and prissy old farts. The latter have managed to ensconce the Keynesian apologists with pitiable images of so called forefathers in tri-corner hats and an almost religious fundamentalism with regard to ancient documents. The Constitution can’t save us as long as the priesthood in black robes control it.
Is the solution a demand that politicians have a grasp of Quickbooks? Anarchy is not a zero-sum game with chaos. If anything results in a condition of utter disorder it is the abuses of statism over time on the individual. A call for competing or specie based currencies is a hedge on the prevailing statism that produces the ultimate chaos, war. Since the establishment of central banking, the state has wreaked a havoc on the world that has been the progenitor of war and destruction.
Anarchy is the non-acceptance of statism. If government is not legitimate, it doesn’t follow that chaos is the solution. Voluntary human transaction, without violent conflict, happens every day. It happens without the coercion or threat of government reprisal.
Inarticulate writers like Mark Dalton may always get their pieces published when the main guy is on vacation, but it is very obvious that their capacity to look and find the articulate, alternative, visions of society is very limited. They would do well to study beyond the strictures of public institutions. I doubt very much that Mr. Dalton has ever read Mises or Rothbard, let alone some of the very new material on the subject as articulated by Crispin Sartwell or Gary Chartier.
What it does, is to infuse the average reader with a horror about something that they fully don’t understand or grasp. Fortunately, neither does the writer and further postulation and conjecture about anarchy is certainly in more capable hands.