Yesterday we looked at what Karl Polanyi had to say about private property Private Property as a Commodity (and a derivative at that) Part XIII
C. B. Macpherson turns that “exclusive property” idea on its head.
       C.B. Macpherson’s book, Property: Mainstream and Critical Positions, like Schlatter’s before him, is an anthology of theories about property, but in his conclusion he comes up with a more original idea. All previous classical, or Lockean versions of the right to own property, as individuals, meant that the individual has the right to exclude others from his property. But Macpherson’s idea is that all individuals should have the right not to be excluded from the use of property for their labor (Macpherson 1978, 199-207). I think it’s a clever, sneaky way of switching to collectivist mode without alerting the guardians of Lockeanism, but I won’t tell on him. After all, if we all owned the environment together, collectively, then, de facto, nobody would be excluded from the use of it.
Monday: "Herman E. Daly & John B. Cobb knew that the Native Americans had the right idea all along."
Alert all your friends who won't give up their racial identities and/or who make money from owning private property that this blog challenges their personal and social constructs.
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