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celebratedrecluse wrote

back a while ago, there was this .onion site that laid out the theory behind what it called Assassination politics.

Basically, use difficult-to-trace blockchain currencies to create elaborate collective "betting" on various different public figures dying, which would then be cashed without leaving a paper trail by someone who "bet" an official would die on a particular day. The only people having the knowledge to do that, would be those assassinating the people targeted.

There's nothing to stop this from hurting revolutionaries of course, and since it is market based it favors the rich by nature, which is why this was sort of a fringe ancap/american-libertarian discourse back when it is talked about. As the american right wing has become more authoritarian and the old libertarians i used to argue with became avowed fascists/cop-lovers, you don't see this idea bandied about anymore. But it is a fun thought experiment, lol

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celebratedrecluse wrote

Well, perhaps, but imho any sort of market based technocratic solution i think is doomed to become the very kind of anti-revolutionary horror that has always accompanied "clever" workarounds of fundamental social problems.

Beyond the Logic of the Guillotine or whatever the title of that essay Tequila shared was, seems relevant here.

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