[What is Property? by P. J. Proudhon]@TWC D-Link bookWhat is Property? PART SECOND 59/323
All human labor being the result of collective force, all property becomes, in consequence, collective and unitary.
To speak more exactly, labor destroys property. V.Every capacity for labor being, like every instrument of labor, an accumulated capital, and a collective property, inequality of wages and fortunes (on the ground of inequality of capacities) is, therefore, injustice and robbery. VI.
The necessary conditions of commerce are the liberty of the contracting parties and the equivalence of the products exchanged. Now, value being expressed by the amount of time and outlay which each product costs, and liberty being inviolable, the wages of laborers (like their rights and duties) should be equal. VII.
Products are bought only by products.
Now, the condition of all exchange being equivalence of products, profit is impossible and unjust. Observe this elementary principle of economy, and pauperism, luxury, oppression, vice, crime, and hunger will disappear from our midst. VIII.
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