0xen 🎩
@0xen
public ledgers, open source, DAOs, CC0 are all far left coded ideals. curious how the more right leaning crypto space squares these bedrock concepts.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Generate revenue.
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0xen 🎩
@0xen
strange bedfellows innit
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@thumbsup.eth
DAOs or user-owned networks are like cooperatives. Cooperatives can earn revenue. The distinction of capitalism’s versus socialism’s “revenue” is the profit incentive and who gets the profit. Especially because they also have the power over how the company is run (and in oligarchies, how the country is run) Don’t let anyone tell you that money, markets, or income has to be absent from leftist ideology; it’s a big tent. Leftist conception of these things, which as you mention is very much coded in line with the web3 we’re building, is about equitable distribution of surplus revenue and democratic control of the organizations. I don’t think people on the right understand the bogeyman they think they’re fighting. Red scare propaganda and garbage propaganda like “The Little Black Book of Communism” built a wall of bias that even Gorbachev couldn’t tear down.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
> Red scare propaganda and garbage propaganda like “The Little Black Book of Communism” built a wall of bias that even Gorbachev couldn’t tear down. It's not little. 100 million dead. Ask anyone who has actually lived in a communist country how great it is. :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism
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Dan, seriously. Two of the books authors revoked their authorship and the numbers don’t add up. They’ve even admitted they made it up. Here’s a solid debunking with citations, but there are quite a few if you try at all to check your bias. It’s CIA dribble baby. Sorry to ruin your favourite book for you. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/7n6ql2/is_the_black_book_of_communism_an_accurate_source/
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Dan Romero
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OK, 50 million dead. Are you disputing that communism killed more people in the 20th century than any other ideology?
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@novack
i’m not going to argue that communism is good, but this common argument is reductive and isolated the wrong variable. authoritarian communist governments killed many people, among whom were the advocates of communist republics and anarcho-communist societies, who were not responsible for such killing. instead of the insane implication that communism is somehow preferable to fascism, it should be noncontroversial that authoritarianism historically leads to mass killing regardless of economic structure.
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Dan Romero
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what is an example of a non authoritarian communist country?
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