By @14g23h34
Let’s talk about Marxist inversion in BTC:
These are my observations of the Core versus Knots debate as an outsider.
Every organization, company or institution WILL have to contend with those that try to invert its original purpose (Marxists). To understand why I call them that – you must let go of the idea that Marxism exists only as a political system and see it instead as a worldview. Marxism can exist in your book club, your Pilates group or your Tech startup.
The motivation is simple:
The established order allows for little personal advancement. Preventing scope creep and organizational drift is not censorship, it is conservation. It is the immune system of the existing identity against dilution of purpose. Marxists co-opt an existing body/identity and invert its original purpose to create a blue ocean; a new market to expand their personal influence or wealth. By INVERTING the original purpose they borrow credibility from the existing reputation and user base while forwarding their new goals.
Examples:
- When politicians focus more on foreign interests than its citizens (NGOs, Wars).
- When game developers stop producing entertaining games that the fan base wants in favor of their personal ideologies (gamergate).
- When a CEO diverts resources in favor of ulterior motives forcing organizational drift (Disney, Budlight).
- When Universities focus on politics and influence peddling over education (endowments, government research, DEI patronage jobs).
- When regulators act as gatekeepers and corporate toll booths instead of serving the public (FDA, NIH, SEC).
- When news organizations focus on coordinating narratives over reporting events (all of them).
- When Developers expand the scope of Bitcoin beyond a peer-to-peer electronic cash system.
Marxist tactics:
Marxism attacks organizations in three primary ways.
1. Leadership:
In a company, they typically target the founders for removal by involving them in scandal. Founders have Sweat Equity and care about an organization more than an average employee. They are the only ones willing to risk their career to resist. This is why Elon Musk was attacked so strongly. Thankfully, Bitcoin is immune to this because Bitcoin has no centralized founders.
2. Identity destruction:
Marxism views traditional identities as obstacles to be overturned in revolution. This can be something banal, like a company communication policy or as grandiose as gender. Regardless, the “current thing” must change because progress demands it.
And through the system of Marxist gradualism (never-ending nibbles of change), they boil the frogs, or in this case, the plebs.
Many people wouldn’t identify themselves as Marxists or even understand what it is, but they run the code.
Normie NPC American has been deeply indoctrinated by Marxism through popular culture for decades.
If someone is consistently attempting to overturn established traditions or identities, you have a revolutionary Marxist on your hands.
Bitcoin’s identity as a money stands in the way of the new identity they want for Bitcoin. By introducing an endless string of small new features and changes, Bitcoin’s identity will be slowly diluted and inverted to serve a new selfish purpose.
Think about a startup that wanted to create a singular good product, but every Director and VP introduced their own pet project, and eventually, scope creep diluted the brand.
Something that is everything is also nothing because it lacks a singular identity and purpose to be defended above all others.
Bitcoin’s identity as hard MONEY must be defended because that is the ONLY vector Marxists have to attack it.
Culture comes from identity. What we do comes from who we are and what we believe as bitcoiners. If they can’t change Bitcoin’s identity and culture, they lose.
3. Bitcoin is conservative:
I often hear the argument made that Bitcoin is libertarian, but Bitcoin is also the most conservative asset ever to exist. 21 million forever, no free rides, proof of work only.
I don’t use conservative in the mainstream political sense. I use it in the form of Conservation of Natural Resources. Of preventing the tragedy of the commons. Of preserving the current over endless performative progress. Saving for the future instead of spending in the now. Discouraging debt and encouraging quality.
These are all ideals of a conservative culture. It is no accident that so many bitcoiners identify Bitcoin as the Christian ideal of money. Bitcoin is conservative Fiat is Progressive.
People always respond that Bitcoin is libertarian. I like Libertarians, but Marxists know Libertarians can’t defend themselves, and this is why so many Marxists masquerade as Libertarians (parasitism, inversion).
Why? Because from the libertarian perspective, any defense can be inverted as an offense. “Don’t censor my peer-peer porn coin or you’re being authoritarian!”
Marxists use the same tactic on Christians: “Why are you defending Christianity? You’re not allowed to defend yourself, Jesus said, turn the other cheek!”
Make no apologies for conserving and defending an existing identity. Defending WHAT CURRENTLY IS is never an offensive act.
Bitcoin’s identity as a peer-to-peer electronic cash system must be conserved.
Marxists attack language:
Marxism is ego-based and parasitic. Because of this, Marxists will lie or use euphemisms to smuggle their actions inside of a moral framework.
Euphemism:
“You’re promoting censorship”
Translation:
“You are impeding my will”
“Censorship” is only the body they use to incubate their Marxist actions. Once their goals are achieved, they would dispense with it. The true meaning of the word censorship is irrelevant.
Remember, their primary attack is on identity; they attack the identity of THE WORD censorship and reform it for their own uses.
You will recognize examples of this vocabulary destruction in culture war topics:
Fat -> Fat Bodied
Homeless -> The Unhoused
Breastfeeding -> Chestfeeding
Mother -> Birthing person
The justification for changing language is always something like “harm reduction”. The suggestion is that speaking the truth harms the subject of discussion and therefore identity and definitions must be softened and blurred. These are not arbitrary vocabulary substitutions.
Re-read the examples I gave above, and you will see that the substitutions all imply some level of victimhood or reduction of identity. A “homeless person” lacks a home, and “unhoused person” implies an action was taken against them. Someone unhoused them. This is how political correctness was used to attack the English language under the guise of kindness since the 1960s.
By destroying the language, they are fighting on a meta level. They cannot win on the principles of their arguments, and so they attack the rules of the game itself. It is an attack on our sense-making systems. By destroying clear definitions, Marxists make dialogue impossible, and when dialogue is impossibl,e only violence remains.
You must recognize the bait-and-switch semantic word game being played. Refuse their vocabulary to remain immune.
Conclusion:
I forget who referred to Marxism as a “series of bitch moves”, but that’s the best way to understand how they think and act.
They won’t and can’t fight fair or stand on principle because they have an immoral ideology, and they don’t have those skills. Instead of listening to market feedback, they will abuse your nodes.
When caught, they will laugh and downplay their abuse or attempt to INVERT the morality:
“If all it took was to attack some nodes to trigger the Knotzis, then Knots must be pretty retarded” or “good luck trying to stop me from raping your node with spam and JPEGs”
The translation is “it’s your fault that you’re upset by my bad behaviour, and I’m going to intentionally be worse”
If all other tactics fail, they default to credentialism. The Appeal to Authority we saw during Covid lockdowns by governments and regulators is the perfect example.
“Trust the science, trust the experts, trust the devs”
“Knots is only one person! vs. an entire team of professionals” (Lie, appeal to authority)
Bitcoin doesn’t need a Priestly class. Bitcoin is for the plebs. Who am I to tell you this? I’m not a developer nor am I a technical bitcoiner. But I am an Orthodox Christian who has seen this pattern play out across 20 years of working with startups, corporates and governments, and I am extremely good at spotting Marxists.
And what you have at core is a Marxist attack on Bitcoin.
Bitcoin is truth, and Marxists are incapable of telling it. Stick to the truth.
Bitcoin is a money.
Conserve it, protect it.