Charles, it is worse than that. He has been breeding and collecting his own
seeds for decades, developing his own distinctive strains. He sued Monsanto
for contaminating his crops with the pollen.
Charles Brown wrote:
Law as aggressive protector of private property.
Thanks to Les S. for
Let me get this straight. Monsanto's private property is intellectual
property, essentially a legal fiction on par with M.'s corporate
personhood. The farmer's land is mere _real_ property, essentially also a
legal fiction but having a common law history going back many, many
centuries. So the
Intellectual property is old, too: Patents are in the constitution, and were
known (I am sure) for centuries before that. Property is a "fiction," but it
has a social objectivity that makes it quite real. --jks
Let me get this straight. Monsanto's private property is intellectual
property,
At 08:25 AM 3/30/01 -0800, you wrote:
Let me get this straight. Monsanto's private property is intellectual
property, essentially a legal fiction on par with M.'s corporate
personhood. The farmer's land is mere _real_ property, essentially also a
legal fiction but having a common law history
The court held that
regardless of whether he planted them deliberately or if he merely found
them growing on his farm, it was his responsibility to destroy the seeds and
seedlings or pay royalties.
I'm not familiar with Canadian patent law, but in general those bodies
of law that, grouped
Charles Brown wrote:
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People owning stuff is personal property. The aim is not to abolish personal
property. Individual consumer goods would be personally owned.
Private property has the technical connotation of ownership of the social
productive means that are necessary to
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 13:48:02 -0500, Charles Brown wrote:
Private property has the technical connotation of ownership of the social productive
means that are necessary to production in a society with an enormous division of
labor or soicalization and specialization of the production process. The
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On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:07:50 -0500, Charles Brown wrote:
Private property is the legal crystalizatio
Charles Brown wrote:
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There is enormous division of labor and specialization in the historical
socialist states. It is pretty much the same level of divsion of labor as
the capitalist state it takes over from.
Miners only mine. They don't make steel , by and large. Doctors
David S. wrote:
Maybe I am just being dense. You defined "private property" (which you seek
to abolish) in your previous post as "Private property has the technical
connotation of ownership of the social productive means that are necessary
to production in a society with an enormous division of
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:07:50 -0500, Charles Brown wrote:
Private property is the legal crystalization of class exploitative relations of
production. So, it is the numero uno
effective principle of bourgeois law and jurisprudence , today's exploitative form of
productive relations.
The
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