The 20th century political spectrum was from left to right: communist, socialist, capitalist, nationalist.

The 21st century political spectrum may be from bottom-up to top-down: maximalist, decentralist, statist, militarist.

Bitcoin Maximalists are not fully ideologically consistent, but are close to anarcho-capitalists in their antipathy to state control.

Decentralists would mean Ethereans and most of the people on Farcaster.

Maximalist is to Decentralist roughly as Communist is to Socialist. The more intense version…

While I'm aligned with decentralization, I think the most important characteristics to optimize for in systems:

- credible neutrality, i.e. ideological capture resistantance
- permissionless innovation
- user-control