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Revision as of 20:09, 14 May 2005 by Dtobias (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Property is theft! is a slogan coined by the French anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon in his book What is Property? Or, an Inquiry into the Principle of Right of Government.
While long ignored, the term has been resurrected by the anti-copyright and the copyleft believers.
Ayn Rand and her Objectivist followers often like to cite this slogan as an oxymoron, and as evidence of the contradictory nature of leftist thought, on the grounds that "theft" only has meaning when defined in terms of the taking of property, so hence it is nonsensical to regard property itself as theft.
See also
- libertarian socialism
- Mikhail Bakunin
- Karl Marx
- property
- private property
- What is Property?
- tragedy of the commons
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