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What is Property?

CHAPTER IV
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It is an economical law, that LABOR MUST BE BALANCED BY PRODUCT.

It is a fact that, with property, production costs more than it is worth.
3.

Another economical law: THE CAPITAL BEING GIVEN, PRODUCTION IS MEASURED, NOT BY THE AMOUNT OF CAPITAL, BUT BY PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY.
Property, requiring income to be always proportional to capital without regard to labor, does not recognize this relation of equality between effect and cause.
4 and 5.

Like the insect which spins its silk, the laborer never produces for himself alone.

Property, demanding a double product and unable to obtain it, robs the laborer, and kills him.
6.


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