Jim Devine says:

>Michael wrote:
>>It may be that intellectual property laws may be the most effective form
>>of protectionism devised so far.
>
>except that it's not the kind of thing that's called 
>"protectionism." It protects individual corporations or other 
>property-holders, not the domestic markets of countries. It's an 
>extension of "normal" property rights like patents, copyrights, 
>trade marks, etc. The owners of "intellectual property" can easily 
>take their property and move to another country.

The decline of protectionism + the rise of intellectual property 
(among other things) = "Kautsky's story of 'ultra-imperialism' (the 
rich capitalist powers unified against the world)...without the 
positive connotations that Kautsky saw (the ending of the anarchy of 
production)"?

Yoshie

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