"the thousand signatories"? So, a hundred thousand dollars in some currency... this proposed donating is the basis for saying people are being insufficiently "constructive", because they don't want the primary, global MECW resource to be taken off the net so a few people working for some collective that was once connected to the CPGB can continue to try to scrape some revenue on the basis of their legal ownership of translation rights to the most significant revolutionary theory/works in history?
I genuinely feel like I am on a different planet than most people here.
Benjamin,
What about Alan Freeman’s suggestion?: “Why
don’t the thousand signatories to the L&W letter pledge to raise $100 each
per year for an electronic version of the text to be kept online, for example?
This would be somewhat more constructive, I think.”
From: [log in to unmask]" ymailto="mailto:[log in to unmask]" target="_blank" href="mailto:[log in to unmask]" class="" style="">benjamin
rosenzweig
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: the disappearing Marx Engels Archive
I know that people are mostly academics here, but the idea that the
removal of these texts from the internet is a good idea because of the
intellectual property rights or financial needs of L+W is unbelievable. The idea
that this becomes ok if people try to put a few more hardcopies in
libraries...what planet are you people on? What kind of weird-ass privileged
positions are you writing from where you think this makes
sense?
