Re: Pete's diary

["Jon Rhein" <rhein@betterthanlife.com>]

re:

> In a recent diary entry called "Money," Pete says, "When popular
> artists are allowed to control the means (and rewards) of their own
> production and distribution you have an almost perfect Marxist
> situation."
>
> I know we don't discuss politics here any more, but that sounds more
> like free enterprise and capitalism to me than Marxism. Can anyone
> explain why Pete would call that Marxist?

The 'workers' controlling the means of production is a basic Marxist tenet,
the idea being that no one else should profit from the labor of a worker but
the worker.