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What is Property?

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Then I explained its perpetual limitation; and, following out the same idea, I predicted its approaching disappearance.
How, then, could the editors of the "Revue Democratique," after having borrowed from me nearly the whole substance of their economical articles, dare to say: "The holders of the soil, and other productive capital, are more or less wilful accomplices in a vast robbery, they being the exclusive receivers and sharers of the stolen goods"?
The proprietors WILFULLY guilty of the crime of robbery! Never did that homicidal phrase escape my pen; never did my heart conceive the frightful thought.

Thank Heaven! I know not how to calumniate my kind; and I have too strong a desire to seek for the reason of things to be willing to believe in criminal conspiracies.

The millionnaire is no more tainted by property than the journeyman who works for thirty sous per day.

On both sides the error is equal, as well as the intention.

The effect is also the same, though positive in the former, and negative in the latter.


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