From: Jeff Davis (jdavis@socketscience.com)
Date: Wed Dec 13 2000 - 18:02:28 MST
Friends,
While anyone is free to interpret, reinterpret, define, or redefine
something to suit their own purposes, it is not unreasonable to start at
the beginning when seeking the meaning of something.
As I recall, the phrase "property is theft" originates from the anarchist
period of the mid 19th century, in France, and specifically in the work
WHAT IS
PROPERTY?
AN INQUIRY INTO THE PRINCIPLE OF
RIGHT AND OF GOVERNMENT
P. J. Proudhon
which he completed in 1840.
Information on Proudhon can be found at
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/proudhon/Proudhonarchive.html
and the gutenberg e-text of "What is Property?...", can abe found at
http://www.best.com/~dhm/archives/proudhon-property-is-theft.html
I sat down to read this once and found it at the time too tedious. I've
just downloaded the e-text version and will take another look.
Best, Jeff Davis
"Everything's hard till you know how to do it."
Ray Charles
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