If you ignore the historically loaded proper nouns in that piece, most of the values described are the sort of thing that's typically pretty popular around here

If you ignore the historically loaded proper nouns in that piece, most of the values described are the sort of thing that's typically pretty popular around here. Decentralization, free software, information freedom, etc. It doesn't really have anything to do with the communist parties that come to mind when one hears the word "Communism".