/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>It seems to me that rather than smashing mills the Luddites should have leaked the mill designs and trade secrets to their employer's competitors.

The rival companies would not touch the stolen IP and will just report the perpetrator to the police. No one wants to break IP laws because they don't want their own IP to be stolen. I guess some truly hopeless incompetent company might be tempted but govts don't fuck around with IP laws, if they get caught their company will likely be fined to death and executives will be arrested. It's one of the few laws under capitalism where being a big company or a billionaire won't save you if you break it.

>>2387593
They have entire departments dedicated to clean room design and reverse engineering.

>>2388119
Reverse engineering is legal but you need to tweak it a lot when you finally make your own product in order not to infringe the original patent. And that requires a lot of money and effort, so there's still a big competitive barrier even when you reverse engineer somehting.

>>2387593
you're a moron if you believe in bullshit like IP law. look at how behringer infringes on design and trademarks and stomps bespoke manufacturers.

>anthropomorphizing capital, a social relation
retarded thread

why is your title longer than your body

woah what if all the smart guys went off to a secret island a built a super train that was really cool because they didn't have to feed dumb workers and society fell apart without them

ITT: OP is clueless in regards to industrial engineering

>>2387107
>It seems to me that rather than smashing mills the Luddites should have leaked the mill designs and trade secrets to their employer's competitors.
sure, in the sense that this speeds up the spread of a technology and therefore speeds up historical development. It is an accelerationist approach, but…
>monopoly
is actually the endpoint of capitalist development. competition has winners. Either the govt. steps in to "trust bust" like Teddy Roosevelt, which just resets the clock on capitalist competition, or the monopoly gets nationalized, which Lenin says is the prerequisite social condition for socialist revolution in the imperial core, and he pointed to Weimar Germany as the example of that. You want the workers to smash the bourgeois state and seize the nationalized monpolies for themselves, not revert to some kind of primitive competition and decentralization that is anathema to a planned society.

Pic related

>>2388774
it really isn't and also I've seen longer titles

>The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself.

>>2388926
Yes, I'm an accelerationist. I'm very inspired by the Free Software movement. I want to do stuff like piracy and free software in order to drive the small businesses out of business. It's the same reason I support labor unions which put small businesses out of business as well which can't tolerate labor strikes. Also because labor bargaining forces corporations to innovate and so drives the rate of profit down.

>>2388786
I want to accelerate the proletarianization of the professional strata by attacking the intellectual monopoly rents you fuckwit. Also, read Harry Braverman's "Labor and Monopoly Capital". I want to intensify competition within the professional strata and accelerate monopoly capital.