To what extent can piracy be understood as a global, historical phenomenon linked to economic inequality rather than just criminal activity?
Are you rich?>YesThen any reason you can pull out your ass is justified whether it's illegal dumping of waste, invading EEZ and territorial waters for fish, or holding assets ransom.>NoCrime on high seas.
>>18448085Deleted Twitter years ago, gimme some context on this
>>18448127Meh
>>18448127Japanese people were mad at foreigners pirating their products and one jap threatened to pirate Dostoevsky books which led to a russian to link a site with free books of dostoevsky
>>18448127Japanese on Twitter were complaining about other countries pirating Content that isn't accessible to them. In one discussion a Jap wanted to own a Russian by threatening him to pirate a copy of Dostoevsky. He didn't know that the Russians feel honored whenever foreigners want to read their works, so several of them sent him a list with book recommendations to download.
>>18448085I learned about he cangaçeiros after watching this Brazilian kino.Then I learned that Hobsbawm came up with an entire category to classify this type of criminal: social bandits.This describes people like the cangaçeiros and pirates that commit crimes in rebellion against oppressive authorities.He wrote an entire book about it from a Marxist/class struggle perspective if you’re curious.
>>18448192tell me more
