[p2p-research] Repurposing Profit for User Freedom

[Kevin Carson]

On 2/5/10, Ryan Lanham <rlanham1963 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/5/10, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:

> > but I am never arguing for that, so I find it strange that you always
> bring that up ...

> Excellent.  Then we can agree coercive state socialism (as in Cuba, China or
> Venezeula) is not something either of us support.  And that people have the
> right to property both real and intellectual and the right to protect that
> property through mechanisms of the state.

I'm at a loss to see where you get the specific "agreement" above from
Michel's renunciation of coercive socialism or communism.

That a renunciation of coercive socialism entails recognizing a right
to "intellectual property" [sic] and the right to protect it through
the state strikes me as a monumental exercise in question-begging to
the point of smugness, since it assumes that opposition to
"intellectual property" [sic] equates to coercive socialism in the
first place.  That latter assumption may be your belief, but it's
wrong to attribute to others in interpreting their foreswearing of
coercive socialism as an endorsement of IP.

It would be similarly impermissible for me to infer that you opposed
IP law, just because you foreswore coercive fascist corporatism.

-- 
Kevin Carson
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