For some reason, Shagya Blog has decided to announce on left-libertarian that they are backing government-controlled health care over privatized health care. Apparently Shagya Blog missed the point of what Anarchy is about.

The current issue of Workers’ Solidarity anarchist bulletin highlights the battles of which anarchists are a part to oppose American style privatization of the medicare system in that country. Their group byline emphasises the relationship between socialism and anarchism with which the Shag and most social anarchists would agree.

There seems to be a pretty fundamental misunderstanding here. Anarchists do NOT support State-controlled programs. They support public programs controlled by the people themselves, not by the State. I can’t believe I have to explain this to grown men.

Yes, American-style privatization is bad- because government and big corporations controls how the insurance system and the hospitals work, not because there is a lack of controls. Because of capitalism and socialism in health care, the very things these so-called “Anarchists” fight to preserve!

I’ve been talking to these first-wave Anarchists, “social-Anarchists”, and they have zero understanding of economics or economic dynamics. No wonder we want to wipe them out and start clean.