On Sep 11, 2012, at 11:26 AM, brandelune at gmail.com wrote:
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> On 2012/09/12, at 0:12, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:
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>> If Marx had had the capability to put out, at virtually no cost
>> (beyond the living expenses of the translators), ten million free
>> copies of Das Kapital wouldn't he have jumped at the chance?
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> But would have he supported an initiative that aims at destroying
> the means of earning a wage for writers who don't have a choice?
> Because that's what this "collective" is doing: attacking Verso for
> not being "radical" enough.
When writers earn a wage the copyright becomes property of the capitalist who paid that wage. We should at no time support the capitalist monopolizers of intellectual and artistic products. To end the wage system in regard to intellectual and artistic production our political programs should call for guaranteed subsistence income for creators and abolition of the copyright/patent system for monopolizers.
Shane Mage
"L'après-vie, c'est une auberge espagnole. L'on n'y trouve que ce qu'on a apporté."
Bardo Thodol