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funny how many universities, including stanford, list mia as their source for marx. i did find this source, http://www.nlx.com/collections/84, which makes the complete 47 volumes available in mrc files. i can't seem to open them but maybe someone can get use out of it. but be careful. i tried to download the complete marx/engels via a link provided on this email distribution and had some particularly nasty adware loaded on my laptop, technically not a virus since i asked for it i guess, that commandeered my home page and search engine until i zapped it with malwarebytes. it's still not 100%. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Louis Proyect" <l...@panix.com> To: "Charles Faulkner" <lacena...@comcast.net> Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2014 4:42:11 PM 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/lacenaire%40comcast.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
