The "mutual credit" doesn't have to replace the prior monetary order. It can coexist and the point is it provides a resilient fallback, as well as the ability t

The "mutual credit" doesn't have to replace the prior monetary order. It can coexist and the point is it provides a resilient fallback, as well as the ability to finance projects without waiting for a higher political authority to greenlight you. The Bolsheviks never tried decentralization. Quite the contrary, they were all devoted to having a single top-down vanguard force the program on the citizenry. They nearly destroyed their country between 1918-1921 with their policy of "war communism" and had to introduce capitalist reforms in the NEP just so the peasantry didn't starve to death. Their doctrine of international revolution was a separate idea altogether. Also, how does relinquishing monetary monopoly mean you have to retire the army? They're two completely orthogonal things. OWS was a joke from the start. It had no identifiable goals to speak of.