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Dear Cryptoleft, I have a question for you:
From my experience and knowledge (in France & in the US), it seems to me that left wing aligned ppl are more often than not, anti-crypto. Oftentimes because it's seem as a way to scam people, and often associated with finance, which is traditionally despised by the left.
However, given the very nature of blockchains, being a decentralized and transparent alternative to our current information storage/communication system, which should 100% align with the leftwing standards, how come we're seeing so much dogmatism and lazyness to actually understand the technology, embrace it, and build leftwing aligned proposition? This really baffles me to be honest.
Is there a deeper reason as to why things are this way? Making crypto a partisan issue is really the worst outcome possible... 5 replies
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banger, 10/10, this is all of it
im in a number of leftist FB groups and the people are passionate about making a better world and proletariat solidarity, usually quite receptive to new ideas, reading theory, and learning when they are wrong
but any time i try to cite crypto's success helping in countries with unstable currencies, or point to @tbsocialist, the reaction is pure vitriol, they don't want to hear it, nothing but laugh reacts and 30d bans. they view it as already fully owned by corporate interests and right-wing memelords. they (rightfully) cite scams and the NFT bubble and don't believe it'll ever change from that.
sometimes i wonder too why we haven't been able to produce more tangible equitable outcomes in the past decade. at last devcon i met dozens of bogota/argentine/venezualan locals whod escaped hyperinflation thru onchain stables, but nobody ever talks about that.
i think for this to change we need to elevate more cryptoleft evangelists from the global south. tag em if you know em. 0 reply
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