The &quot;mutual credit&quot; doesn&#x27;t have to replace the prior monetary order. It can coexist and the point is it provides a <i>resilient</i> fallback, as well as the ability to finance projects without waiting for a higher political authority to greenlight you.<p>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 &quot;war communism&quot; and had to introduce capitalist reforms in the NEP just so the peasantry didn&#x27;t starve to death. Their doctrine of international revolution was a separate idea altogether.<p>Also, how does relinquishing monetary monopoly mean you have to retire the army? They&#x27;re two completely orthogonal things.<p>OWS was a joke from the start. It had no identifiable goals to speak of.