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Cryptocommunism (Theory Redux) 1st Edition

by Mark Alizart (Author), Robin MacKay (Translator)
4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
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Cryptocurrencies are often associated with right-wing political movements, or even with the alt-right. They are the preserve of libertarians and fans of Ayn Rand and Friedrich Hayek. With their promotion of anonymity and individualism, there's no doubt that they seamlessly slot into the prevailing anti-State ideology. But in this book Mark Alizart argues that the significance of cryptocurrencies goes well beyond cryptoanarchism. In so far as they allow us 'to appropriate collectively the means of monetary production', to paraphrase Marx, and to replace 'the government of persons by the administration of things', as Engels advocated, they form the basis for a political regime that begins to look like a communism which has at last come to fruition - a cryptocommunism.
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    1509538577
  2. ISBN-13
    978-1509538577
  3. Edition
    1st
  4. Publisher
    Polity Press
  5. Publication date
    October 5, 2020
  6. Part of series
    Theory Redux
  7. Language
    English
  8. Dimensions
    4.9 x 0.6 x 7.6 inches
  9. Print length
    129 pages
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"A fascinating antidote to reductive takes on cryptocurrencies. Blockchains are more than just cryptolibertarianism and this book makes a provocative and wide-ranging case for just how important they might be."
Nick Srnicek, King's College London

"Alizart's arguments are compelling and replete with insights into what a digital-empowered post-capitalist society might look like."
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"Creative and iconoclastic"
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Mark Alizart is a writer and philosopher who lives in Paris.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Polity Press; 1st edition (October 5, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 129 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1509538577
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1509538577
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.9 x 0.6 x 7.6 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 17 ratings

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5.0 out of 5 stars Nice!
Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2022
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Good reading. Not the usual crypto BS but a very interesting view on modern politics, crypto networks and the ways of the future.
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Georgios Tsakalias
1.0 out of 5 stars Ignorant
Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2022
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Author writes that systems can be (partially) controlled by POSITIVE feedback and reach an equilibtium. Complexity theory says the opposite: systems run out of control, to non-equilibrium states by positive feedback and control mechanisms provide NEGATIVE feedback to bring it to some equilibrium.

Author writes that a positive feature of Ethereum is that it is TURING-COMPLETE. Actually Ethereum programs have a "gas" property that limits them and make Ethereum TURING-INCOMPLETE.

Author believes that Ethereum-like smart contracts can substitute lawyers and law in general. He doesn't understand that such system is by definition UNDECIDABLE and INCOMPLETE. Amazingly, he references Godel and Turing but he does not understand them.

Finally, a socialist society (based on libertarian communism or PARECON or whatever flavour) is based on peoples face-to-face deliberation and full transparency on every social organization at any level. Encryption doesn't fit anywhere in such a society. I am not referring to cryptocurrency only but to all the author's "vision" of an automated cryptosociety run by machine code.
The whole book is an unscientific defamation of communism and anarchism.
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