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<!-- you can have any number of categories here --> [[Category:Property]] [[Category:Historical Revisionism]] [[Category:Libertarians Misunderstand Property]] [[Category:Expropriation]] [[Category:Redistribution (propaganda sense)]] {{DES | des = Libertarians frequently claim homesteading as a peaceful origin of property, but that is ignorant [[Historical Revisionism|historical revisionism]]. There is no land in the world that can show a convincing chain of ownership through original homesteading (before other owners.) Existing claims of homesteading generally ignore pre-existing peoples who were swept aside. Homesteading for spontaneous establishment of ownership is ahistorical.}} <!-- insert wiki page text here --> Libertarians frequently claim homesteading as a peaceful origin of property, but that is ignorant [[Historical Revisionism|historical revisionism]]. There is no land in the world that can show a convincing chain of ownership through original homesteading (before other owners.) Existing claims of homesteading generally ignore pre-existing peoples who were swept aside. The US? Swept away the Native Americans, who in their turn had swept away earlier tribes back to the Clovis culture or even earlier. Europe and Asia? Don't make me laugh. Australia? Swept away the Aborigines, and who knows what their unrecorded history over the past 40,000 years was like. Africa? Numerous whole species of humans were swept away, let alone Homo sapiens tribes. About the only claimed historical example of homesteading in the Lockean sense was Medieval Iceland: but they stole that land by expelling Irish Catholics who probably had stolen it from aboriginal inhabitants. The brief homesteading period in the US was a government method of giving away land it owned (stolen from the Amerinds), not spontaneous removal from a commons. It resulted in government-recognized ownership, not a natural right. <!-- DPL has problems with categories that have a single quote in them. Use these explicit workarounds. --> <!-- otherwise, we would use {{Links}} and {{Quotes}} --> {{List|title=Homesteading|links=true}} {{Quotations|title=Homesteading|quotes=true}}
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