A lot of people who call themselves ‘anarchists’ sided with the state and the medical-pharmaceutical complex during the lockdowns. Why?

Anarchists reject political authority, but the ‘science’ (actually state-funded pseudoscience) that many so-called ‘anarchists’ venerate is actually a proxy for political authority. They are not defending or upholding actual science; they are merely reaffirming their allegiance to the cult of scientism.

Some of them are gullible and impressionable. When they read that clinical trials for mRNA vaccines proved their safety and efficacy, they essentially take that claim at face value. They may be genuine anarchists and proponents of individual freedom, but more-or-less fully accept the entire popular narrative regarding Covid-19, vaccines and lockdowns. Having done so, they contend that individual freedoms must be sacrificed or curtailed for the sake of the ‘common good’. The prospect of mandatory vaccination and forcibly injecting people against their will might be where they draw the line; they might suggest ‘quarantine’ as a ‘humane alternative’. (Such a proposal — of quarantine — is wrongheaded and immoral, but let’s give them the benefit of the doubt. Let’s just imagine that they are well-intentioned, albeit misguided — and that their alignment with state and corporate power is a ‘coincidence’.)

On the other hand, many people who call themselves anarchists are not anarchists at all. They’re communists. They pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but ultimately they prize ‘equality’ far more highly than they do freedom. Their idea of equality encompasses ‘equal access to health care’ — even if people don’t actually want or need said ‘health care’; even if it has to be imposed on them. ‘Health care’ is one of their ‘sacred cows’.

There is little or no point in debating with these people; the best we can do is protect ourselves from them. As it stands they have large numbers, so this is easier said than done.

The sad state of affairs is that many ‘anarchists’ (again, so-called) became effective cheerleaders for Big Government and indirect supporters of Big Business — since it was really only small and medium-sized businesses that were negatively impacted by the lockdowns. Some communists might have regarded the lockdowns as a ‘great leveller’ — a punch in the face to the middle and upper classes; an opportunity for the working class to ‘get even’. Of course that’s not what happened. The working class didn’t ‘get even’ as much as (during lockdown) find themselves unable to work. And the gap between the richest and poorest has probably only increased if any thing.

Genuine anarchists who trust their intuition realize now what the lockdowns and the mandates were actually about (even if it took them a while to figure it out). Confused anarchists might still be catching up — might still be confused on the issue. Fake anarchists cheerleaded the lockdowns and mandates, because it was a trial run for what they really believe in — essentially a form of totalitarianism and a type of ‘biosecurity state’.

As genuine anarchists, let’s try to be patient with the second group, while protecting ourselves from the latter.