Honestly, that’s one of the reasons why I absolutely refuse to list “anarchism” as being of the far right, or indeed a right-wing view (if anything, it belongs in the same place as Communism, Fascism, and Naziism, which is on the left). As if the fact that there were quite a few radical leftists who advocated for complete anarchy in some way or another (heck, Foucault for one advocated for getting rid of ANY courts at all, even socialist people’s courts, and just having “popular justice” akin to the September Massacres) wasn’t enough of a hint that anarchism is truly a left-wing ideology rather than right-wing.
Nice to see the left is eating their own, though, that the NYT is getting its just desserts.
I think the reason anarchy is viewed as right-wing by some, is because they misunderstand the term “limited government”. It does not mean “no government”, it means limited to doing what only the government can do, and leaving everything else to the private sector. Liberals are basically extremists. They either want no private sector at all, or no government at all. I’ve known liberals who were in the latter category, although those are getting very rare in this country.