Since property is the grand cause of privilege and despotism, the form of the republican oath should be changed.

Instead of, "I swear hatred to royalty," henceforth the new member of a secret society should say, "I swear hatred to property." SEVENTH PROPOSITION.
_Property is impossible, because, in consuming its Receipts, it loses them; in hoarding them, it nullifies them; and in using them as Capital, it turns them against Production_.
I.If, with the economists, we consider the laborer as a living machine, we must regard the wages paid to him as the amount necessary to support this machine, and keep it in repair.

The head of a manufacturing establishment--who employs laborers at three, five, ten, and fifteen francs per day, and who charges twenty francs for his superintendence--does not regard his disbursements as losses, because he knows they will return to him in the form of products.

Consequently, LABOR and REPRODUCTIVE CONSUMPTION are identical.
What is the proprietor?
He is a machine which does not work; or, which working for its own pleasure, and only when it sees fit, produces nothing.
What is it to consume as a proprietor?
It is to consume without working, to consume without reproducing.

For, once more, that which the proprietor consumes as a laborer comes back to him; he does not give his labor in exchange for his property, since, if he did, he would thereby cease to be a proprietor.