[Upd-discuss] Article: Copyleft vs. Copyright: A Marxist critique by Johan Sonderberg

[Seth Johnson]

It's interesting to note Marx's work on the "universally
developed individual" in the Grundrisse.


Seth


Zapopan Martin Muela-Meza wrote:
> 
> Sonderberg, Johan. (2002). "Copyleft vs. Copyright: A Marxist critique."
> First Monday, volume 7, number 3 (March 2002)
> http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_3/soderberg/index.html
> http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_3/soderberg/
> 
>     First Monday
>     Copyleft vs. Copyright: A Marxist critique by Johan Soderberg
>     Abstract
> 
> Copyright was invented by and for early capitalism, and its importance to
> that system has grown ever since. To oppose copyright is to oppose
> capitalism. Thus, Marxism is a natural starting point when challenging
> copyright. Marx's concept of a 'general intellect', suggesting that at
> some point a collective learning process will surpass physical labour as a
> productive force, offers a promising backdrop to understand the
> accomplishments of the free software community. Furthermore, the chief
> concerns of hacker philosophy, creativity and technological empowerment,
> closely correspond to key Marxist concepts of alienation, the division of
> labour, deskilling, and commodification. At the end of my inquiry, I will
> suggest that the development of free software provides an early model of
> the contradictions inherent to information capitalism, and that free
> software development has a wider relevance to all future production of
> information.
> 
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> "Any man who reads a lot and uses a little his own brain
> falls into lazy mental habits.”
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> "Cualquier hombre que lea demasiado y utilice poco
> su propio cerebro cae en hábitos mentales perezosos.”
> -- Albert Einstein (Thorpe, S. (2001). Como pensar como
> Einstein : How to Think like Einstein. Bogota: Norma, p. 214)
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