There’s a deep cultural trauma around collectivism. When people hear socialism or communism, they think of failed authoritarian regimes and for good reasons. Those who claimed to practice them have often created systems that lead to oppression &amp; economic failure.

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ManuAlzuru🥑

Really worth reading this thread

https://x.com/manualzuru/status/1890403646048768450?s=46

Urbanist thinking about open places, open access, and open web
/urbanism + https://zora.co/@miawintam

love this, it's so fair and balanced, this is why i don't identify with most traditional leftist ideologies - just like capitalism "looks good on paper" but sucks hard in practice and late stage power dynamics, there's been significant failures in the implementation of socialist power structures that are too widespread to just ignore. marxist promises of equality and fairness are great but from what we've seen, even modern "success stories" like china and vietnam still struggle with rampant inequality and corruption, and wind up looking entirely too much like their capitalist counterparts.

we need new power structures, we need new governance, we need new tools for coordination, blockchain is the only path forward