MetaView #23 : The Blockchain Socialist on Anarcho-Syndicalism & DAOs

It's been around two and a half years since The Blockchain Socialist started his website to explain Blockchain 101 from a socialist point of view, and although the name was just tentative, in time he got stuck with it and the project expanded to different analysis and, eventually, to a podcast.

He is currently working on a documentary called Crypto Futures to “hopefully distinguish what the different futures of crypto are and make a call to action for viewers to make a choice on which one they want to support”. Going on to explain how the crypto “community” is far from homogenous - how the perspective & philosophy of an average Bitcoin Miami & Crypto Commons Gathering conference-goer are vastly different.

In this episode he and Peth exchange some views and perspectives on anarcho capitalism, anarcho syndicalism, socialism, DAOs and the blockchain ecosystem.

Some of the topics are:

Crypto Futures Documentary
Crypto Commons Gathering
Libertarian & hyper-capitalist crypto mindset
Leftist critiques of crypto
Anarcho Syndicalism and its relation to DAOs
History of unions and decentralization
Differences between anarcho communism and other strands of socialism
Token governance???
Universal basic income vs universal basic services

He addresses the importance of showing different people’s visions about crypto in the future to break the tendency of trying to define the entirety of it in a particular way. “It's a good thing that we don't try to impose those mental models onto this new thing because that would limit us in thinking about how we use crypto and blockchain for different goals than the libertarian ones”.

That is what in his opinion would allow people who are building to have an alternative mental model to what they’re developing and help them think thoroughly about their political and economic consequences and whether or not there are ways to build them that are more “progressive minded”.

Therefore his goal is to expose different alternatives socialist ideas and models that have an interesting history and that, in his opinion, are relevant for DAOs, such as anarcho syndicalism.

Resources:

The Blockchain Socialist (twitter)
The Blockchain Socialist
Support The Blockchain Socialist on Patreon
Crypto Futures Documentary
DAOs: Anarcho-Syndicalism in a Digital World
The Weight of Chain

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