What is Property?: An Inquiry Into the Principle of Right and of GovernmentB.R. Tucker, 1876 - 457 trang |
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Trang 261 - Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is the exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In property, inequality of conditions is the result of force, under whatever name it be disguised: physical and mental force; force of events, chance, fortune; force of accumulated property, etc. In communism, inequality springs from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.
Trang 11 - If I were asked to answer the following question: What is slavery? and I should answer in one word, It is murder, my meaning would be understood at once. No extended argument would be required to show that the power to take from a man his thought, his will, his personality, is a power of life and death; and that to enslave a man is to kill him. Why, then, to this other question: What is property?
Trang 272 - A republican! Yes; but that word specifies nothing. Res publica; that is, the public thing. Now, whoever is interested in public affairs — no matter under what form of government — may call himself a republican. Even kings are republicans." — "Well! you are a democrat?" — "No." — "What! you would have a monarchy." —"No."— "A constitutionalist?"— "God forbid!"— "You are then an aristocrat? " — "Not at all." — "You want a mixed government? "—" Still less."— "What are you,...
Trang 56 - Writers* on jurisprudence have explained its origin in a manlier that may satisfy every man of common understanding. The earth is given to men in common for the purposes of life, by the bounty of heaven. But, to divide it, and appropriate one part of its produce to one...
Trang 271 - What is to be the form of government in the future? I hear some of my younger readers reply: "Why how can you ask such a question? You are a republican." "A republican! Yes; but that word specifies nothing. Res publica; that is, the public thing. Now, whoever is interested in public affairs — no matter under what form of government — may call himself a republican. Even kings are republicans.
Trang 12 - I undertake to discuss the vital principle of our government and our institutions, property: I am in my right. I may be mistaken in the conclusion which shall result from my investigations: I am in my right. I think best to place the last thought of my book first: still am I in my right. Such an author teaches that property is a civil right, born of occupation and sanctioned by law; another maintains that it is a natural right, originating in labor, — and both of these doctrines, totally opposed...
Trang 278 - Every question of domestic politics must be decided by ' departmental statistics; every question of foreign politics is an affair of international statistics. The science of government rightly belongs to one of the sections of the Academy of Sciences, whose permanent secretary is necessarily prime minister; and, since every citizen may address a memoir to the Academy, every citizen is a legislator. But, as the opinion of no one is of any value until its truth has been proven, no one can substitute...
Trang 286 - Now, value being expressed by the amount of time and outlay which each product costs, and liberty being inviolable, the wages of laborers (like their rights and duties) should be equal. VII. Products are bought only by products. Now, the condition of all exchange being equivalence of products, profit is impossible and unjust. Observe this elementary principle of economy, and pauperism, luxury, oppression, vice, crime, and hunger will disappear from our midst.
Trang 14 - ... still others to ignorance and general corruption, — and weary of the interminable quarrels of the tribune and the press, I sought to fathom the matter myself. I have consulted the masters of science; I have read a hundred volumes of philosophy, law, political economy, and history: would to God that I had lived in a century in which so much reading had been useless! I have made every effort to obtain exact information, comparing doctrines, replying to objections, continually constructing equations...
Trang 260 - ... of all communistic theories. The members of a community, it is true, have no private property ; but the community is proprietor, and proprietor not only of the goods, but of the persons and wills. In consequence of this principle of absolute property...