-Caveat Lector-
Thanks, Nessie! A very cogent explanation. Of course, where the worshippers
of the marketplace go wrong is that they define "property" in terms of
*private* property and extend the statement that "property is liberty" to
include General Motors, Bertelsmann, and Mitsubishi...which is a logical
absurdity.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nessie [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 1999 11:47 AM
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> Subject: Re: [CTRL] Anarchism: Two Kinds / Wendy McElroy
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> -Caveat Lector-
>
> > Property is theft.
> Property is liberty.
> Property is impossible.
>
>
>
> Proudhon is obviously talking about three different things. The word
> "property" is like the word "love." It has more than one meaning. You
> "love" your girlfriend. You "love" your mother. You "love" pizza. These
> are obviously different things. So too are the three different kinds of
> property.
>
> "Property is theft" refers to private property, i.e., a factory where
> workers toil to produce goods the owner sells back to us. We built those
> factories. They rightfully belong to us. We were robbed.
>
> "Property is liberty" refers to personal property. If the things you
> actually use, your home, your car, your tools, your toys, etc. are not
> entirely immune to confiscation and forfieture, your "liberty" is an cruel
> illusion.
>
> "Property is impossible" refers to public property. A long as the things
> we all use, the roads, the schools, the airwaves, etc. are under control
> of the state and of private capital and not of the public, public property
> is impossible.
>
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