Great post by Jeff Tucker, Profiting from Sickness, which states in part:
A student at the Mises University, who is surrounded by some of the smartest young lefty students in the country, told me last week that there is no question in his mind that the injustices done in the name of “intellectual property” are not only driving young people away from the idea of property rights in general but are actually inspiring a re-embrace of socialism.
This is why the intellectual stakes are so high. It is urgent that believers in real capitalism separate themselves completely from this false notion of “intellectual property” so that it not permanently discredit the cause of property property, free markets, and capitalism generally. To save the idea of private property, it must be completely severed from impostor forms.
