A Note on Disseminating Leftist Propaganda : PLEASE DO
Steal and Profit From My Work1
I have wanted a more permanent place to post this sentiment so I think here is relevant especially as my first post (I will not spam, I promise I’ll figure this silly lil emailing thing out).
I care notably more about the message and work I put out there getting out that I do getting credit or money from it. If you think any work or content or ideas I have or release are helpful to be used as a public resource, please use them as such. I will not be upset if u rip my work off here and post it on any platform, tbf its not super reposted bc im one man and quite lazy.
If you take an idea, it would be cool to note it is from me, but its notably more important that it is being spread. The neonazis and alt right have figured this out, thats why m**********f*****ing n**is like N**k f******** are seen everywhere, and we need to not limit ourselves with unhelpful proprietaryness.
I recognize that this is an issue that there is reasonable disagreement on and one that displays my privilege, ex. black and brown ppl consistently have their ideas plagiarized, stolen, or hijacked and that is a problem. I don’t judge or demean ppl who want credit for their intellectual or emotional labor.
My only point is that 1 – for me personally, you will have to do something incredibly egregious for this privileged communist who does not believe in intellectual property to have a problem with u using his ideas or content or work and 2 – as a culture in leftist spaces and antifascist work, the expectation should be goodfaith use with credit, not proprietary relationship with knowledge and intellectual labor. we should be more interested in growing and developing ideas and effective plans of action / propaganda than we are in restricting it. Follow zine rules, keep the authors name on it if u want, but get it in every goddamn place u can. And for my work, monetize tf out of it if u want.
Anyway, hopefully soon I’ll have some not just meta-content coming out, and will actually get back to work. Till then, enjoy and consider sharing and subscribing, and make some willztalks shitposting accounts or something idk.
I retain the right to request removal of my image and content at anytime from anyone for any purpose (I don’t want dirty nasty genociding corporations to use my beautiful face for their purposes (I know this is to some extent not legally binding but in all seriousness, this post is not a waiver of rights in any way and is merely encouraging you to do that which you are already legally entitled to do with publicly available work per Substack TOS, and I retain all rights to my image, content, and labor xoxo))
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