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The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online



digital socialism is socialism without the state

This new brand of socialism currently operates in the realm of culture and economics, rather than government—for now

Instead of gathering on collective farms, we gather in collective worlds. Instead of state factories, we have desktop factories connected to virtual co-ops. Instead of sharing drill bits, picks, and shovels, we share apps, scripts, and APIs. Instead of faceless politburos, we have faceless meritocracies, where the only thing that matters is getting things done. Instead of national production, we have peer production. Instead of government rations and subsidies, we have a bounty of free goods.



The Old
Socialism


The New
Socialism

It is not an ideology

It is a design frontier and a particularly fertile space for innovation.

I. SHARING

II. COOPERATION

III. COLLABORATION

IV. COLLECTIVISM

decentralized public coordination

can solve problems and create things

bigger than

imagined