Fuck Yeah Marxism-Leninism

By Greg Butterfield, Workers World

After years of piecemeal attacks on Internet users for so-called piracy — that is, the free sharing of culture and information — a major section of the U.S. and global ruling class seems intent on carrying out a full-court press to wrangle wholesale control of the Web for the profiteers in the name of “intellectual property rights.”

The government/media propaganda message is that these laws are meant to protect artists’ and inventors’ rights. But the only ones they benefit are the 1% — huge transnational corporations that have stolen people’s ideas and creations for decades in the name of megaprofits.

The corporations’ message is sheer hypocrisy. Their entire capitalist system is built upon piracy, stolen labor and resources, and cultural appropriation.