Adrian Midgley wrote:
Obviously I knew you did;-), but I couldn't resist anyway (anarchism is such a fascinating area of thinking)!On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 11:14, Thomas Beale wrote:
[2] Ah, but from whom?
The original was (in english) "property is theft", from Pierre Proudon, french anarchist...
Obviously I know that, but the sneaky question someone later posed was
(if property is theft...) from whom was it stolen.
The problem of "property" in an information society is that the term doesn't mean much, since as we all know the incremental costs of manufacturing each next copy tend to $0...
- thomas
