Who Owns Knowledge? • SftP Magazine
The shortcomings of how society currently organizes science are plain to see. The solution is more elusive. To chart our way forward, we must first understand how knowledge is produced under capitalism.
Who Owns Knowledge? Science Under Capitalism and Socialism By Alice Malone Volume 27, no. 2, Political Economy of Science “The founder of civil society, and consequently the grave-digger of primitive equality, was the man who first fenced off a piece of land and said: ‘It belongs to me.’” — G.V. Plekhanov 1 “The question ‘Who owns knowledge?’ seems absurd at first glance. . . . If anything is entirely a social product, it is knowledge…” — Agustín Lage Dávila 2 In the last half of the 20th century, the economies of wealthier countries became increasingly dominated by the production and distribu
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