I imagine he thinks that it's ironic for an ardent capitalist to make references to a book about a socialist paradise, and "irony is dead" means he thinks Musk doesn't recognise the possibility of irony. Or something.
If you want to create a spacefaring socialist (or anything-ist) utopia, first you must amass a giant fortune of Earth money to hire a small army of engineers and mechanics and build rockets to get the hell off the rock and away from the existing moneyworshippers. Blanketing the planet in internet access so that every person can receive the message is a useful side-effect, as well.
Or did you think you can just scream "socialism is better" loud enough to manufacture megatons of stainless steel, methane, and o2?
There's literally no path from here to there that doesn't involve statist (either capitalist or whatever the CCP is calling their economic system presently) gigabucks first. Large and complicated things don't get built on Earth without piles of cash for your staff and to grease the wheels of the state that currently maintains a monopoly on access to orbital weapons and surveillance. You need to get those piles of cash from somewhere, either from selling people something voluntarily, or collecting taxes from them on threat of violence. Welders and and machinists and steel mills (to say nothing of rocket engine designers) don't work for free.
Show me a crowning achievement of mankind, and I'll show you a hundred+ billion dollars of 2023-equivalent-value. If you're not in the taxation business, that means you gotta sell stuff.
Then step one is to enslave an entire nation of people to force them to pay for your megaproject. Given that the existing nations large enough to do such projects in a reasonable timeframe are disinterested in anything that doesn't expand or perpetuate their dominion over territory solely on Earth (even the Apollo program was an anti-USSR thing), that means either going to war with one of them (again, gigabucks required to begin, along with a willingness to engage in large scale violence) or starting a new one (which takes generations, which is too slow given the rate of Earth's current inhabitants actively incinerating their existing society).
Not enough people accept cryptocurrency to amass usable gigabucks to hire an army; the existing issuers of money already thought of that avenue even before Satoshi. Your assets as a private citizen can never be used to raise an army, no matter how wealthy you become, as your bank balance exists only as long as the state says it exists. (This is why Musk says Putin is the richest person in the world and not himself. True wealth is not measured in USD or RMB or even kilograms of gold, but in opportunity.)
That only leaves the current plan, which is to delay that incineration, and develop the technology to escape independent of (although naturally with the tacit approval of) one of the existing states.
First humans born in space in meaningful numbers will not be citizens of an Earth country at all. Your comment is a red herring.
Sending a few hundred people into low Earth orbit is not "making it to space" in the sense being discussed in this thread. We're talking about a million humans living not-on-Earth.
No Earth government gives a fuck about that. They became governments because they enjoy lording over hundreds of millions of people here and now.
If you believe any significant numbers of humans can congregate anywhere in physical reality without forming recognizable government structures, you're in for a real disappointment.
