[What is Property? by P. J. Proudhon]@TWC D-Link bookWhat is Property? PART SECOND 215/323
By separating man in time; 2.
by separating him in space; 3.
by dividing the land, or, in general terms, the instruments of production; by attaching men to things, by subordinating man to property, by making man a proprietor." This language, it must be confessed, savors a little too strongly of the metaphysical heights which the author frequents, and of the school of M.Cousin.Nevertheless, it can be seen, clearly enough it seems to me, that M.Leroux opposes the exclusive appropriation of the instruments of production; only he calls this non-appropriation of the instruments of production a NEW METHOD of establishing property, while I, in accordance with all precedent, call it a destruction of property.
In fact, without the appropriation of instruments, property is nothing. "Hitherto, we have confined ourselves to pointing out and combating the despotic features of property, by considering property alone.
We have failed to see that the despotism of property is a correlative of the division of the human race;...
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