Where does the meme have something to do with centralization?
MelissaLiberty
joined 1 year ago
Copyright is just one of the many fixes for inherent problems in capitalism. It needs to exist in capitalism because otherwise you’d just make the problems even worse. But it’s an innovation crippling system that (like everything in capitalism) only benefits the rich. So no copyright shouldn’t exist, just like capitalism.
That would imply that (liberal) reforms are a good way to solve our issues, but that is not the case. Of course posting memes is not praxis. But to say that reforms, especially liberal reforms who even fail to see capitalism as the root problem, are good because someone is at least doing something is just as wrong. This is not a new debate and none that needs to be had for the hundredth time. All this reform vs revolution talk has been plentifully discussed over a 100 years ago. Rosa Luxemburgs “Reform or revolution” makes the biggest points perfectly clear. Reforms can be a way to temporarily make things better (if done right, which is not the case with most liberal reforms), but we should not be kidding ourselfs by thinking that we can solve this systemic issue by making new laws. The powerful won’t just sit there and watch their power be handed over.