Easy to take advantage of individualists in a cooperative based economy than a collectivized one.

Idk about that on it's face. The Cuban people have endured a hellish onslaught of violence and oppression from abroad. They wouldn't have endured without a high degree of cooperation and comraderie.

By contrast, the Eastern European economy underwent full collectivization without a strong fraternal foundation. Their residents were ripe for divide-and-conqueror when the Iron Curtain fell.

This isn't an either-or issue. You need both enthusiastic participation AND organized collective ownership to achieve a lasting Socialist state.

Do you have specific issues with the real democratic structures of AES states that you can point to further decentralization helping with?

I understand how all this works, and I think those are systems built on human communications systems of the 18th century, not the 21st. I think communications have come so far that we need to consider that more decentralization and distribution than we already have isn't going to somehow make things worse.

Current iterations are Napster, and I want us to be be Bittorrent.

Like I said elsewhere, I think communications and how they alienate us from each other has potentially become the bigger issue than commodities separating us, which is why I'm less interested in Marx and more interested in Debord/McLuhan.

Like how McLuhan talked about the history of ancient Egypt and how, after the invention of papyrus and use by the military, the power in society went from the Priest caste, who previously were the only people who could write, to the military caste, because their writing was current, prudent, and useful in everyday life. It changed power relations in society based on a different type of communications system. Modern communications, especially software are literally language made manifest and so much of our world runs on it all now that the private corporations that own it all can effectively put a gun to the world's head and say "do what we say or we make it all stop working." We can also look at the flip side, the Great Firewall of China, which endlessly spies on all its citizens and even gives them cute popups to remind them that cops are actively watching their online activity, and why friends of mine used to risk running Tor exit nodes because they wanted to support dissidents in countries who were blocking their communications.

Does that make sense?