Comments on: Property As Theft http://anarchyinyourhead.com/2009/03/04/property-as-theft/ The Revolution Will Be Doodled! Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:46:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Dale http://anarchyinyourhead.com/2009/03/04/property-as-theft/comment-page-1/#comment-6208 Dale Mon, 03 May 2010 19:01:50 +0000 http://anarchyinyourhead.com/?p=329#comment-6208 Some very valid questions in there. Some very valid questions in there.

]]> By: Martin Franco http://anarchyinyourhead.com/2009/03/04/property-as-theft/comment-page-1/#comment-6207 Martin Franco Mon, 03 May 2010 07:01:47 +0000 http://anarchyinyourhead.com/?p=329#comment-6207 Question inspired by the "property is theft" argument: Can you own land, or merely own the human labor invested in the land? I do not see how owning property which does not contain human labor can be reconciled with the premise of self-ownership. (i imagine another premise such as "the world exists /for/ man" would be needed to prove such a claim.) Suppose you wash up on an uninhabitted island. If you can own land, then the island would soon become your property. Suppose that another man washes ashore later. Can you evict him? Can you charge him rent for the rest of his life? Or does it make more sense to say that you only own the hut you built and the trails you blazed? Second question: Does rent have mutual consideration even though the renter gains a claim to the rentee's property (money) without relinquishing a claim to his own? Question inspired by the “property is theft” argument: Can you own land, or merely own the human labor invested in the land?

I do not see how owning property which does not contain human labor can be reconciled with the premise of self-ownership. (i imagine another premise such as “the world exists /for/ man” would be needed to prove such a claim.)

Suppose you wash up on an uninhabitted island. If you can own land, then the island would soon become your property. Suppose that another man washes ashore later. Can you evict him? Can you charge him rent for the rest of his life? Or does it make more sense to say that you only own the hut you built and the trails you blazed?

Second question: Does rent have mutual consideration even though the renter gains a claim to the rentee’s property (money) without relinquishing a claim to his own?

]]> By: Jim Profit http://anarchyinyourhead.com/2009/03/04/property-as-theft/comment-page-1/#comment-5940 Jim Profit Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:34:00 +0000 http://anarchyinyourhead.com/?p=329#comment-5940 A bed was not intended to be crapped on, it was designed by the workers you be slept in and I would love to see my fellow comrades kick the crap out of you for daring to deficate on the worker's creation. (Communists are pretty cool guys, eh smash the capitalism, and doesn't afraid of anything) A bed was not intended to be crapped on, it was designed by the workers you be slept in and I would love to see my fellow comrades kick the crap out of you for daring to deficate on the worker’s creation. (Communists are pretty cool guys, eh smash the capitalism, and doesn’t afraid of anything)

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