[lbo-talk] Paying for it

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sun Feb 13 14:48:25 PST 2011


Gar Lipow:

You know, the more I think about the more "giving it away" is a bad idea anyway. People appreciate stuff more when they pay for it...

That's what Ho Chi Minh thought. Back in the 1930s he charged for the paper he published precisely on the ground that paying for itmade it more important to the reader. And he was charging poor Vietnam peasants!

Carrol



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