Delicious vicious revenge: Commie site getting smacked by copyright law.
It’s not irony because capitalism is supposed to make communism eat the pavement. It deserves to, because capitalism is better than communism:
A radical publishing house, called Lawrence & Wishart, who at one time was connected to Great Britain’s Communist Party, is demanding the removal from the Marxists Internet Archive of the “Marx-Engels Collected Works”—hardcover books that sell for up to $50 a pop.
The archive has posted a message to its readers informing them that Lawrence & Wishart’s material will be removed April 30.
[Links removed because Marxism sucks. - ML]
Turns out that the publishing house wants to flog digital copies of its translation of the various unholy books of Marxism – hence, the copyright issue* – and thus they need the archive to stop giving away the documents for, like, free man. This amuses me, but only up to a point: because I can’t help but think that we’d be a lot less tolerant of a fascist publisher and fansite having this dispute over the early works of, say, Benito Mussolini**. Let’s not pretend that anybody involved in this dispute doesn’t deserve to be treated as pariahs within their own society…
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