Hans Hermann Hoppe : no es un crisis del capitalismo es un crisis del estatismo
Another objection: What about the new internet-based detractors of the
state, such as "Occupy" or the "Pirates," who demand transparency and
participation, without immediately condemning the state and democracy in
their entirety?
Hoppe : The "Occupy" movement consists of economic ignoramuses who fail
to understand that the banks’ dirty tricks, which they rightly deplore,
are possible only because there is a state-licensed central bank that
acts as a “lender of last resort,” and that the current financial crisis
therefore is not a crisis of capitalism but a crisis of statism. The
"Pirates," with their demand for an unconditional basic income, are well
on the way to becoming another "free beer for all" party. They have a
single issue: criticism of "intellectual property rights" (IP rights),
which could make them very popular—and earn them the enmity in
particular of the music, film and pharmaceutical industries. But even
there they are clueless wimps. They just need to google Stephan
Kinsella. Then they’d see that IP has nothing to do with property, but
rather with state privileges. IP allows the inventor (I) or ‘first
maker’ of a product—a text, picture, song or whatever—to forbid all
other people to replicate this product, or to charge them license fees,
even if the replicator (R) thereby uses his own property only (and does
not take away any of I’s property). This way, I is elevated to the
status of co-owner of R’s property. This shows: IP rights are not
property but, on the contrary, are an attack on property and therefore
completely illegitimate.
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