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-----Original Message----- >From: Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> >Sent: Apr 26, 2014 7:42 PM >To: Thomas F Barton <thomasfbar...@earthlink.net> >Subject: [Marxism] Center for a Stateless Society » With “Socialists” Like >Lawrence and Wishart, Who Needs Capitalists? > >====================================================================== >Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. >====================================================================== > > >Aside from the rather contemptible display of self-pity and entitlement, >the statement reflects more than anything else an utter lack of business >sense. “Ultimately, in asking L&W to surrender copyrights in this >particular edition of the works of Marx & Engels, [Marxist Internet >Archive] and their supporters are asking that L&W, one of the few >remaining independent radical publishers in the UK, should commit >institutional suicide.” This is nonsense on stilts. The hard copy set of >the Collected Works, if bought as a complete set instead of one volume >at a time, sells for 1500 British Pounds, which is somewhere well north >of $2000. If Lawrence and Wishart can show one person, anywhere in the >world, who put off shelling out over two thousand bucks for a set of the >dead tree edition of Marx and Engels’ Collected Works because a digital >online edition was available, I will eat my own left hand – raw, and >without salt. The Marxist Internet Archive’s online edition of the >Collected Works is not costing Lawrence and Wishart a single solitary >sale. The only thing the online edition is competing against is a trip >to a university library. If anything, the online edition is free >advertising for the dead tree edition. In other words, Lawrence and >Wishart is governed by the same abject stupidity as the music and movie >industries – the dying music and movie industries. > >full: >http://c4ss.org/content/26699?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+c4ss+(Center+for+a+Stateless+Society) > >________________________________________________ >Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu >Set your options at: >http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/thomasfbarton%40earthlink.net ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
