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This book debunks three false claims commonly accepted by
contemporary political philosophers regarding property systems:
that inequality is natural, inevitable, or incompatible with
freedom; that capitalism is more consistent with negative freedom
than any other conceivable economic system; and that the normative
principles of appropriation and voluntary transfer applied in the
world in which we live support a capitalist system with strong,
individualist and unequal private property rights. The authors
review the history of the use and importance of these claims in
philosophy, and use thorough anthropological and historical
evidence to refute them. They show that societies with
common-property systems maintaining strong equality and extensive
freedom were initially nearly ubiquitous around the world, and that
the private property rights system was established through a long
series of violent state-sponsored aggressions.
Examining the origin and development of the private property rights
system from prehistory to the present day This book debunks three
false claims commonly accepted by contemporary political
philosophers regarding property systems: that inequality is
natural, inevitable, or incompatible with freedom; that capitalism
is more consistent with negative freedom than any other conceivable
economic system; and that the normative principles of appropriation
and voluntary transfer applied in the world in which we live
support a capitalist system with strong, individualist and unequal
private property rights. The authors review the history of the use
and importance of these claims in philosophy, and use thorough
anthropological and historical evidence to refute them. They show
that societies with common-property systems maintaining strong
equality and extensive freedom were initially nearly ubiquitous
around the world, and that the private property rights system was
established through a long series of violent state-sponsored
aggressions.
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