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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @justin_shocknet 2 Feb \ parent \ on: Why do left leaning folks not get Bitcoin? bitcoin
They were leftists for undermining corrupted leftism peddling governments?
Pretty clear libertarians, heck Snowden is even under the protection of Putler and not Europe. (I have no doubt something with Snowden and Trump will happen with oddly convenient timing)
I'm sure there's plenty of people with some left sympathies (empathies), but are also thinkers and therefore not collectivists, and thus into Bitcoin. That's much different than an avowed collectivist who derides Bitcoin because they can't think up a way to channel it towards their goals.
Your views on Bitcoin are a direct result of how resourceful you are with information and how well you can extrapolate.
I just don't like the term 'leftist' it is such a diluted term and carries all this 'external' meaning and baggage.
I think some people are socialists (a lot of people) and in fact the majority party in Germany has been 'democratic socialist' for a long time?
There there are 'communists' but there are very few of them around really. Waving the red flag, advocates for Marx etc... They are mostly confined to university economics-research departments.
For me when I think 'leftists' I think liberal democracy, and liberal institutionism. The Bill of Rights, the American constitution, the first and second amendments... these were all 'leftist' constructions opposed to monarchy and the rule of King George. THAT was leftism and I believe it still is today.
And by that extension, Bitcoin is ALL ABOUT leftism as Bitcoin is largely by and for empowering the individual and what they choose to do with their time and energy.
Protection from the state... protection from confiscation, and protection from dilution. THAT is Bitcoin and classical leftism in the spirit of the war against King George
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Sure, terminology is definitely debatable... classical liberal is a term that often describes your form of leftism and I think accurate.
I was using terminology as the OP had in their attempt to untangle irrationally overlapping ideas. Nomenclature aside, my point being that anti-bitcoin and collectivist ideologies cluster as a symptom of a deeper psychological profile.
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