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Loving moxie's namedropping of oldschool revolutionaries:

Maria (Masha) Alexandrovna Kolenkina was a Russian socialist revolutionary from a merchant family in Temzhuk, a small town on the Sea of Azov. (1850-1926) Vera Ivanovna Zasulich was a Russian Menshevik writer and revolutionary. (1849-1919) Nestor Ivanovych Makhno or Bat'ko Makhno was a Ukrainian anarcho-communist revolutionary and the commander of an independent anarchist army in Ukraine during the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922. (1888-1934) (all above from Wikipedia)




Oldschool Communist revolutionaries, to be exact. Yeah, it's no mystery where Moxie's politics lie given those allusions and the not-a-company company, eat together, do push ups together, open salary policies.


Reading Moxie's early stories it is indeed no mystery where his politics lie, and it's certainly not "old-school communist."


Fortunately for most of the human population, the politics of the author of the software we use isn't really a consideration.


I'm sure most people wouldn't use software created by Nazis. Considering Communism has arguably worse track record, I would definitely avoid any software created by its proponents if it's at all possible.


> I'm sure most people wouldn't use software created by Nazis

Best selling car of all time; star of several (very popular) movies: http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20130830-the-nazi-car-we-ca...


I think Moxie is a (left-wing) anarchist with more than a smattering of Crimethinc.


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