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On 4/25/14 8:56 PM, michael yates wrote:
Can comrades explain to me what is so outrageous about the publisher's defense
of its actions? I really would like to know.
I think it probably has something to do with workers across the world
with no access to leftwing bookstores or libraries being robbed of the
opportunity to read Marx and Engels. Lawrence and Wishart have decided
that selling digital copies of M&E to universities will provide a
reliable revenue stream for the indefinite future until a socialist
revolution takes place and the future equivalent of the GPU comes to
take them off to prison.
David Walters put it this way:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/04/capitalism-fells-communism-in-marx-engels-copyright-flap/
David Walters, an archive volunteer, said the publisher agreed nearly a
decade ago to allow the use of the works, which are copyrighted because
they translate the writings from German to English. But now the
publisher wants to sell digital copies to universities -- all of which
means the publisher wants to spread the words of communism via a
capitalistic method.
"We respect the copyright. We respect the agreement," Walters said in a
telephone interview. "But what they are doing is actually restricting
the masses' ability to get these writings because they found a potential
revenue flow by digitizing the works themselves and selling some product
to universities. We think it's the opposite of a marxist approach."
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