Yeah, I was going to say this is probably the first time I've even heard Communism associated with blockchain. I guess there have been some comments about how we can offer universal basic income but that's not really the same.

And decentralization? I won't even think about any "centralized crypto". That's just asking for you to be robbed if you ever put money into it. Unless it's backed by government guarantees or something, but in that case what's the point...? Like you say.

That said, I still put some in Ripple. It's still has a level of trustlessness to it, that the network is not just dominated by a single entity (unless I missed something). I like that it can get rid of all of these middle-men between banks that need to underwrite and verify liquidity for transactions. So... yeah. I would see it more as a "permissioned blockchain". Centralized in that fewer participants have a say, but decentralized enough that one does not have to worry about it disappearing.

Will have to do some poking around resource based economies when I have more time, can't offer much of an opinion on that.