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Banksy Encourages Fans to Shoplift From Guess Since Company 'Helped Themselves to My Artwork Without Asking’ (www.complex.com)

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Banksy isn’t happy with Guess’ latest collaboration.

The legendary anonymous graffiti artist had a directive for his followers on Friday, encouraging them—possibly tongue in cheek, possibly not—to visit the Regent Street Guess store in London and steal the brand’s new collection that features his artwork.

“Attention all shoplifters. Please go to Guess on Regents Street. They’ve helped themselves to my artwork without asking, how can it be wrong for you to do the same to their clothes?”

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[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Socialist theory makes a distinction between personal property and private property (which is what is being referenced there),

Personal property, you own it to use it.

Private property, you own it to extract value by owning it, necessarily this means you are using your ownership of this thing to exploit others.

Example: your house is personal property if you live in it but is private property if you rent it to someone else. You can see from this that things can change from personal property to private and vice versa.

Owning your own home and having your own space is perfectly reasonable within socialism.

[–] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Interesting, that's definitely not the definition of "private" that I was thinking of when I read that post. Still not sure I completely agree, but it sounds reasonable enough.