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A reminder for those who missed it. 

This very clear explanation (below) of how so-called “leftism” is bigger than communism and bigger than moneyless societies—with a subtle jab about how red scare propaganda has turned a generation of people into black and white thinkers—started an absolute war where Dan and a few other capitalism-fetichists just kept playing the “leftism is communism is death squads” card over and over again.

It has been the most fatiguing 24 hours that has made me detest some folks I once set aside my differences with and enjoyed discussing with.

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I don't really get your original point. Since these constructions have emerged under capitalism, they are apparently an emergent feature of capitalism and not socialism.

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that these onchain organisations vaguely resemble some socialist ideas doesn't refute the fact that *they emerged under free capitalism*

DAOs weren't invented in China, or Vietnam, or Venezuela, or North Korea

they are a product of innovation in the capitalist West 

ergo they are an emergent feature of capitalism

You are going to want to go do your research. Markets long predate capitalism and cooperatives come very much from syndicalism which is the basis for socialism 