Take this post with a grain of salt... I'm reviewing my YC start-ups list at http://ycuniverse.com/startups.php along with other YC-related news. It would seem that YCombinator, with over 200 start-ups in various niche markets, has all the essential elements of communism. The notion of a rising working-class of networked start-up founders almost sounds like some sort of political movement. And if you read Paul Graham's essays (I've read them all at least twice), some of those "essays" border on being propaganda.
Theoretically, if you fund that many start-ups and they largely prefer goods and services from each other rather than outside sources, and with YC itself providing new resources to the entire group, there's definately some communist undertones there. An entire city block of YC-funded startups? Hmm...
So is Paul Graham a modern Lenin-esque architect of communism or what?