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Ethereum provides a permissionless computational substrate upon which [many different kinds of economic behaviors](https://x.com/owocki/status/1889892742714761270) - some of them as yet unimaginable - can be expressed without threat of censorship or, importantly, without need of affiliation or ideological inclusion within a dominant milieu in order to access the means of expressing them. You may use features of the network for [centralized purposes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTX) in a way that is broadly [disaligned](https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/09/28/alignment.html) with the ethos of Ethereum, but you won't find yourself subject to sanction or restricted access in doing so. One such body, in the case of FTX, was so broadly associated with the Ethereum network and cryptocurrency in general that it threatened to discredit the whole enterprise; even then, restricted access or censorship *wasn't even on the table*, such is the degree to which that behavior is anathema to Ethereum as an openless and permissionless substrate. Ethereum provides a permissionless computational substrate upon which [many different kinds of economic behaviors](https://x.com/owocki/status/1889892742714761270) - some of them as yet unimaginable - can be expressed without threat of censorship or, importantly, without need of affiliation or ideological inclusion within a dominant milieu in order to access the means of expressing them. You may use features of the network for [centralized purposes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTX) in a way that is broadly [disaligned](https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/09/28/alignment.html) with the ethos of Ethereum, but you won't find yourself subject to sanction or restricted access in doing so. One such body, in the case of FTX, was so broadly associated with the Ethereum network and cryptocurrency in general that it threatened to discredit the whole enterprise; even then, restricted access or censorship *wasn't even on the table*, such is the degree to which that behavior is anathema to Ethereum as an open and permissionless substrate.
The many commentators who are quick to remind us of the harsh death toll of communist ideology are right to affirm this historical truth. Communism, despite many who disagree, *is* the term for a state planned economy that enforces (through explicit or implicit violence) hegemonic enclosure of economic activity within a window of acceptable behavior - one that is often arbitrarily swayed by the whims of an authoritarian elite, and that frequently has decreasing adherence to reality as it degrades under the pressures of centralization. [4] These contradictions have often led to the mass persecution of dissent and mass violence of fitting the square peg of reality through the circle of ideology. The many commentators who are quick to remind us of the harsh death toll of communist ideology are right to affirm this historical truth. Communism, despite many who disagree, *is* the term for a state planned economy that enforces (through explicit or implicit violence) hegemonic enclosure of economic activity within a window of acceptable behavior - one that is often arbitrarily swayed by the whims of an authoritarian elite, and that frequently has decreasing adherence to reality as it degrades under the pressures of centralization. [4] These contradictions have often led to the mass persecution of dissent and mass violence of fitting the square peg of reality through the circle of ideology.