If you actually read this article in full, it seems quite inane to me.
>Now you have actual Nazi groups being in favor of Bitcoin. Weev, one of the biggest Nazi leaders worldwide is into it. There's a great Twitter account that tracks Weev’s Bitcoin wallet, every transaction coming out of it, along with those of some other neo-Nazis.
It doesn't seem important that someone you dislike, nazi or not, uses a currency. Many of the world's worst criminals and killers use the US dollar. It doesn't matter.
>that “the world will ultimately have a single currency,” which to me is a conspiratorial belief.
It doesn't have to be Bitcoin. I don't think anyone important seriously thinks Bitcoin in its current state can be a world currency. But you might be surprised what happens in the next few decades or 100 years from now as far as a world currency goes.
>There is at least a hint there of “illegitimate/parasitic profit takers interfering with an otherwise-honest transaction,” which is a classic form of anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.
At this point I don't think this article is worth taking seriously. I'm not sure how you can read lines like this that imply rent-seeking is an "anti-semitic conspiracy theory" and continue on thinking this article is worth your time. Even if other points of the article are better than this, I still expect better content on HN
> But Nazis represented national socialism which is on the far left side.
No, it's not. National socialism had very little in common with left-wing socialism (even early on, and even less by the time the Nazi party came to power) and was basically right-wing authoritarian nationalism.
There has been a recent effort at historical revisionism by the American Right, in particular, to recast Nazism (and fascism in the general sense) as left-wing movements, but there is no substance behind this propaganda effort.
Authoritarian has nothing to do with the right. Socialism is all about social engineering of the population, which way is being engineered is the flavour of socialism - national socialism makes it in the favour of the people with right blood, social democracy makes it in the favour of the rich (but make it look as favouring the under privileged) and so on.
The right are libertarians, which means people are equal subjects of the law, are free to do anything the like as long they don't hurt the others and so on.
The left is trying to paint darker shades of socialism as the right, to steer people away from seeking the freedom.
Even to the extent that thst can be said to be true, it's not relevant; I didn't say Nazism was right-wing because it was authoritarian I said it was both right-wing and authoritarian.
> Socialism is all about social engineering of the population
No, it's not.
> national socialism makes it in the favour of the people with right blood,
The idea of “right blood” is a right-wing, classical conservative idea that is foreign to the left.
That's one of the thing which distinguishes Nazism as a right-wing ideology.
> The right are libertarians
No, the right are conservatives. Libertarianism has nothing to do with the right (there are both right- and left- libertarianisms.)
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[ 5.0 ms ] story [ 27.3 ms ] thread>Now you have actual Nazi groups being in favor of Bitcoin. Weev, one of the biggest Nazi leaders worldwide is into it. There's a great Twitter account that tracks Weev’s Bitcoin wallet, every transaction coming out of it, along with those of some other neo-Nazis.
It doesn't seem important that someone you dislike, nazi or not, uses a currency. Many of the world's worst criminals and killers use the US dollar. It doesn't matter.
>that “the world will ultimately have a single currency,” which to me is a conspiratorial belief.
It doesn't have to be Bitcoin. I don't think anyone important seriously thinks Bitcoin in its current state can be a world currency. But you might be surprised what happens in the next few decades or 100 years from now as far as a world currency goes.
>There is at least a hint there of “illegitimate/parasitic profit takers interfering with an otherwise-honest transaction,” which is a classic form of anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.
At this point I don't think this article is worth taking seriously. I'm not sure how you can read lines like this that imply rent-seeking is an "anti-semitic conspiracy theory" and continue on thinking this article is worth your time. Even if other points of the article are better than this, I still expect better content on HN
No, it's not. National socialism had very little in common with left-wing socialism (even early on, and even less by the time the Nazi party came to power) and was basically right-wing authoritarian nationalism.
There has been a recent effort at historical revisionism by the American Right, in particular, to recast Nazism (and fascism in the general sense) as left-wing movements, but there is no substance behind this propaganda effort.
Even to the extent that thst can be said to be true, it's not relevant; I didn't say Nazism was right-wing because it was authoritarian I said it was both right-wing and authoritarian.
> Socialism is all about social engineering of the population
No, it's not.
> national socialism makes it in the favour of the people with right blood,
The idea of “right blood” is a right-wing, classical conservative idea that is foreign to the left.
That's one of the thing which distinguishes Nazism as a right-wing ideology.
> The right are libertarians
No, the right are conservatives. Libertarianism has nothing to do with the right (there are both right- and left- libertarianisms.)