The Inevitable Decay of Online Movements

Robert Conquest had three laws of politics:

Everyone is conservative about what he knows best. Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing. The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.

It is the second law which we will be concerning ourselves with here: the inevitable decay of any organization, when it loses its way.

Labeling this decay as “becoming left-wing” is a bi...