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Marxism and FLOSS. (lemmygrad.ml)
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I think that a Marxist society should allow for 0 proprietary software, and instead support for everything in free and open source decentralized technology.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

But I think, RMS himself is anti communist

[–] Marxine 6 points 1 year ago

That's one occasion where we can gleefully separate the work from the person.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Honestly would be very surprising if RMS wasn't a hardcore libertarian or Anarchist.

Although these days he maybe following the ideology of Marxism-Stallmanism

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Sadly, yes, but I think this is caused by him living in the usa. On his personal webpage, he tells people to vote green party, so he probably hit a roadblock after progressivelib.