Statism is the destruction of civilized society.  It might be aimed at by a slow process or outright rebellion.  It’s very easy to see both happening.  The slow conversion to statism can take the form of legislation and regulations.  Outright rebellion can take the form of riots.  Quasi emergencies are created to push more legislation that couldn’t be enacted under peaceful circumstances.  Statism will destroy society however statism is pursued.

Society must be destroyed to reach statism.  Their utopia can only be created by liquidating the imperfect civilization.  Businesses can be nationalized or simply fall under the control of the state.  The effects of both methods do not differ greatly.  The goal is still the same.  The businesses are destroyed in the process.  They are remade to fit the statists liking.  The remaking process can happen before or after the business is destroyed.

These businesses can be sabotaged.  This process doesn’t differ much from the slow process.  There isn’t much difference between the individuals that pursue these policies either.  It’s an attempt to remake society to conform with statism.  All it does is destroy.  Statism can’t create.  It can only destroy.  They’ll never call it what it is, destructionism.  They’ll use terms like abundance, fair, free, and the like.

Both are various forms of intervention in the free market.  Don’t be fooled by terms.  New legislation might be labeled economic policy.  It’s prohibitions against freedom.  The general objective is to destroy life as we know it.  It could be packaged as protecting the consumer, but it’s really protecting the state or their friends from competition.  This ends up being worse products at a higher price.  The consumer is harmed.

Entrepreneurial action is unlawful.  At most, the entrepreneur exists in name only.  You are paying ever higher taxes for the price of goods to go up and the quality to go down.  This is not real economic policy.  It’s a policy to destroy civilization.  Riots in cities and legislation are not different.  Destruction just happens at different speeds.  Not only will civilization be destroyed, it’s hunger and mass extinction.

Reference

Ludwig von Mises; Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis