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Critique of Copyright
For a future without Ownership

Private and Public Property

One of the most important things to examine when discussing the problems with society is the systems of ownership in place within that society. Often people try to seperate economics from politics. But if we define power as the ability to get desired results through the defeat of competing agendas, then ownership--the control of economic resources--is indeed political, and capitalism is in fact a highly political structure of political control and power (as are all ways of organizing an economy).

Capitalism distributes ownership through the institution of private property. In all existing capitalist societies, these economics of the market exist alongside the institution of public property. Public property is not capitalist, but it is a component in all contemporary capitalist economies, and so I will examine the ways in which capitalist private property and non-capitalist public property compliment each other in the creation of an overarching system of ownership and control.

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