#abolish property

[candycoatedghoul]

me and the squad on our way to terrorize the local bank clerk

[radicalgraff]

"Abolish Private Property"

Sticker in Brunswick, Victoria

[kawaiimunism]

You can be anti–intellectual property / pro–copyright infringement and still dislike plagiarism, they're different things. Fitgirl Repacks isn't pretending she made Assassin's Creed. The Phantom Edit literally tells you it's derivative in the opening crawl (if you somehow didn't already know). The only relationship between plagiarism and IP infringement is that—at least in the U.S.—plagiarism isn't explicitly illegal, so if a plagiarism case actually goes to court, it does so as an IP case.

[sukimas]

i know saying "abolish intellectual property" sounds like i'm saying "artists should sink or swim solely on their skills at execution, not at their skills at coming up with an original idea" but in practice that's how things are in a world with intellectual property anyway. most artists make money through commissions or being hired for other people to make parts of those other people's artwork. artists publishing their own original work and becoming successful is a rarity.

[workersolidarity]

Abolish Private Property

90% of Property is owned by the top 1%

Private Property already doesn't exist for the masses.

[anarchistin]

[tanadrin]

Maybe a better analogy for exploitative social classes would be "vulture" as opposed to "parasite"? Though that's less ableist and more unfair to birbs that play an important ecological role and don't deserve the reputation they get.

idk man, do landlords form a coherent class these days? a landlord can be anybody from somebody who rents out the condo they inherited from their dead mom to an investor in a giant national property chain like Deutsche Wohnen. there are exploitative jobs, maybe, but this smacks of the urge to create a coherent category of Bad People Whomst If We Only Got Rid Of, Everything Would Be Better, which I think is kinda BS.

objectively, a lot of landlords are not very good at their jobs (this is why the phrase "the landlord special" has entered the lexicon) and some are really exploitative. but so are a lot of office managers. landlords being intrinsically tainted by sin doesn't seem like the problm. and if you think there are too many people renting out property vs owning it, and this contributes to the lack of housing, or if you think real estate speculation is a drag on the economy, there are plenty of policy levers to choose from to correct for this.

historically a lot of the animus directed at landlords came from the fact that "landlord" usually meant a literal lord of some description, like somebody who owned a vast estate with tenant farmers who acquired that wealth over generations of feudal conquest and peasant-oppression. and that's pretty shitty! but even then, the remedy for that can be anodyne and unsexy policy--big inheritance taxes dismantled most of the large landed estates in the british isles over the course of the 20th century, for instance. small time modern landlords, however lazy or exploitative, or even big evil property investment companies, strike me as fundamentally different animals. like, are they great for the economy? maybe not! but there are a lot of jobs that are not great for the economy that we don't waste time coming up with new ways of hating, and there more productive uses of our energy to correct these problems than figuring out which gross animal to compare them to.

[fuckyeahanarchistposters]

"Rats Against Property"

Graphic by Calle Lubchenko

[lastcatghost]

The concept of private property is just absurd when you think about it fr. Like oh, you own this field? Well I own the moon and the pacific ocean lol, fuckin ridiculous

[toubledrouble]

"fuck the rich and the government" but like in a christian way yk

[blackwolfmanx2]

Real Talk:

Segregation isn't inherently bad and integration isn't inherently good. If both of those are enforced by the government, it's always detrimental to private property.

[melancholia-ennui]

Thinking about the enclosure of the mythical commons again. Fuck this shit for real

[sukimas]

never forget that tear ring saga sold more than binding blade. if you believe that intellectual property protects the original publisher, you have to grapple with cases such as these, where things aren't legally copyright infringement but they're still "the same ideas executed better" and thus sell more. (oh, and it probably would have sold even more if it could be published under the Fire Emblem name, despite not being published by Nintendo! people care about authors' intent.)

also touhou. touhou is pretty god damn important here i think with a guy who has essentially waived copyright to all of his works unless you're a corporation and who is still a millionaire now

[platonicpolycule]

Karl Marx named all three of his daughters after his wife Jenny.

[gaasubap]

It will never stop being weird to me

that when someone complains about land lords,

people think that banks hoarding property

is a completely different issue??

Totally not included in what the OP said???

[noneedtofearorhope]

wish i had a yard big enough for dozens of dozens of trees to just sprout out of nowhere from.