Crime and Communism
The American left is using crime to create class warfare and usher in communism.
People in Los Angeles are being told to not resist robbers and to acquiesce.
San Franciscans are being told to tolerate burglaries and focus on barricading their own homes.
Crazy stuff, isn’t it?
But entirely predictable as an outcome of the mindset of the American left.
American leftists believe crime is a construct, invented by capitalists as a means of oppression. Rather than a criminal justice system mitigating crime, it creates it. It isn't the individual's fault for breaking a law, it is society's fault for making the law in the first place.
That is largely the push behind the various "defund the police" movements because, you see, more police create more crime, not less - but what is happening in the cities where the evil capitalist systems are being systematically dismantled?
If the leftist's premise was true, one would assume crime would evaporate like the morning dew.
But it isn't.
Now the people in these areas are faced with the choice between continuing to support a false premise and barricading themselves in their homes or accepting the reality that neither capitalism nor a system of justice creates criminals.
Foolish people believe foolish things.
That it is even necessary to contemplate such a choice is a measure of just how foolish these people are.
The American left is, at the same time as suborning criminal activity, building a contradictory, irreconcilable and ultimately unsustainable argument about self-defense.
Their premises:
Certain criminal and/or violent acts will be supported, condoned, or simply ignored by government.
Absent that government protection, the individual must take on the duty and responsibility of protecting themselves, their families, their neighbors, and their property.
Subsequently warning people that the individuals who do take action to protect themselves will likely face prosecution if the government decides it does not agree with the methods employed.
This is such a massive irrationality; it simply cannot stand.
But it is all a part of a larger collaborative action - not a “plan” per se, it is simply a compilation of contemporaneous asymmetric actions with the same endpoint in mind.
Take, for example, how crime is being used to advance the leftists communist agenda.
In major US cities, radical, communist DA's like San Francisco’s Chesa Boudin are using crime as a form of reparations and "restorative justice", basically just a means of wealth redistribution.
Who Boudin is, is relevant to any discussion of his performance and policies. Boudin is progeny of two violent communist radicals. He is the son of David Gilbert the convicted murderer and founder of the Students for a Democratic Society at Columbia and who, until his parole last month (October 2021) was serving 75 years-to-life on three counts of homicide. His mother is Kathy Boudin, member of the radical left militant organization Weather Underground who was convicted of felony murder for her role in the Brink's robbery of 1981 and now a professor at Columbia.
They have created an economic class of people to whom criminal laws do not apply because they NEED this stuff (never mind that most of the "stuff" they are stealing is sold) - beyond that, they DESERVE that stuff.
As it is in economics, it is in crime - if you want more of something, subsidize it. If you want less, tax it. That not prosecuting or policing thefts of less than a certain monetary amount has increased the frequency of those crimes should come as no surprise.
Arrest is a tax on crime.
If not in theory, but in practice, this is a sort of perverted Marxist process to defeat the capitalistic idea of private property and bourgeois commerce through petty theft. Even though Marx's theories are little more than institutionalized theft by government, he at least anticipated people wound be made to work for the common good.
It will be interesting to observe the denouement of this narrative.
Newly elected New York Mayor, Eric Adams, is the first into the breach, announcing that his priority is going to be shutting down crime.
I'm betting the narrative for such reversals of suborning theft will be classist - that it is an attack on a class of people who NEED your stuff rather than stopping a process that never should have started.
It is all connected, folks.
Just because there isn’t a “grand plan” we all know about, that doesn’t mean the effect and goals aren’t the same.