Cryptocommunism Quotes

“A State without Statism In crypto circles, communism often figures as everything crypto is not: statist, centralizing, planned and totalitarian, where crypto sees itself as decentralized, liberal and emancipatory. But who was the first person to ask how one could do without the state and its representatives, before Satoshi Nakamoto, Ayn Rand or Friedrich Hayek? None other than Karl Marx.”
― Mark Alizart, Cryptocommunism

“if one day states themselves begin to mine Bitcoin, the bitcoins and transaction fees that miners now collect on any exchanged bitcoin would be collected by the entire community. This global ‘Tobin e-tax’ would be the equivalent of a universal housing tax, serving to keep the national infrastructure in good condition. It would be an ideal candidate with which to finance an unconditional basic income, even if Marxists do not like the principle very much.4 This would be what activist Aaron Bastani calls ‘Fully Automated Luxury Communism’.”
― Mark Alizart, Cryptocommunism

“A blockchain thus combines the openness of democracy with the efficiency of the meritocratic market. Beyond mere money alone, it makes of democracy itself a labour that deserves some kind of compensation. In this way it reverses the balance of power between public and private and paves the way for communism.”
― Mark Alizart, Cryptocommunism

“Precisely, the purpose of life is the form of the chain itself – the act of building it – just as the value of Bitcoin depends entirely on the blockchain that supports it.”
― Mark Alizart, Cryptocommunism