Difference between revisions of "What Is Property?"
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* Patents and copyrights did not significantly exist without demon government to create them. | * Patents and copyrights did not significantly exist without demon government to create them. | ||
* Intellectual property might give people the accurate idea that government is responsible for the system of stable property we enjoy. | * Intellectual property might give people the accurate idea that government is responsible for the system of stable property we enjoy. | ||
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| + | ==Property Is Theft== | ||
| + | Pierre-Joseph Proudhon famously declared that "Property is theft." He also said that property is liberty and property is impossible. These are shortcut expressions of philosophical points he made at much greater length. All describe different aspects of property: they only seem to contradict. | ||
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| + | All property reduces the liberty of all other people by threatening violence for use of the property. Violent confiscation of liberty is a theft of liberty. This isn't simply theft of an abstract, but rather theft of opportunity to freely use natural resources (for example.) This is true of other types of rights as well. | ||
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| + | To read more, see: [[Property Is Theft]]. | ||
==Related Articles== | ==Related Articles== | ||
* [[A Positive Model Of Rights]] | * [[A Positive Model Of Rights]] | ||
* [[What Are Rights?]] | * [[What Are Rights?]] | ||
| + | * [[wikipedia:What Is Property?]], a description of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's book of the same title. | ||
{{Quotations|title=What is property?|quotes=true}} | {{Quotations|title=What is property?|quotes=true}} | ||
