Anarchists should rethink common vs private property (mastodon.social)

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Anarchists should rethink common vs private property
https://www.ellerman.org/rethinking-common-vs-private-property/
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[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 year ago

Many anarchists criticism of private property rests on the idea that it is the root cause of the capitalist’s legal right to appropriate the fruits of their employees’ labor.

This is the Marxist analysis (as also pointed out in the article), not one commonly shared by Anarchists.

I don't think the argument in the article is particularly new or enlightening, and in fact the proposed democratic company is apparently modelled after Mondragon, which was founded on Anarchist ideas nearly 70 years ago.

[-] jlou@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Believing the statement I made there is not limited to Marxists. I have found many anarchists believe the statement when challenged on private property (in products of labor) from an individualist anarchist perspective.

In a sense, Proudhon has made a similar argument to Ellerman, but he did not fully draw the connection to principles of responsibility to ethically justify inalienability of that right. That connection is valuable because it makes it much harder to deny the conclusion

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