You wish to abolish property; but could you live without a body?
I will not tell you that it is necessary to support this body;...

I will tell you that this body is itself a species of property." In order clearly to understand the doctrine of M.Leroux, it must be borne in mind that there are three necessary and primitive forms of society,--communism, property, and that which to-day we properly call association.

M.Leroux rejects in the first place communism, and combats it with all his might.

Man is a personal and free being, and therefore needs a sphere of independence and individual activity.

M.Leroux emphasizes this in adding: "You wish neither family, nor country, nor property; therefore no more fathers, no more sons, no more brothers.
Here you are, related to no being in time, and therefore without a name; here you are, alone in the midst of a billion of men who to-day inhabit the earth.