Ray Saintonge wrote:
The first clause in the quotation is remarkable for its ambiguity. My first inclination was to read this as indicating that property is essential to the definition of culture, or that a society that does not believe in capital does not have a culture. A more acceptable interpretation is that a culture does not exclude the existence of property. In other words
A free culture is not a culture - without property
A free culture is not - a culture without property
Having artists be paid is acceptable in both circumstances. In accounting terms, property is an asset on the balance sheet; getting paid belongs in the revenue portion of the financial statements.
Ec
Hi, and thanks for your thoughts. In clarifying the quote how do you think you should take into account the second sentence - seemingly the counterpoint and twin of the first in the quotation, which is in essence: "A culture without property ... is anarchy, not freedom." - luke