The Anarchist Library “Property is Theft” ???

in anarchy •  3 years ago  (edited)

I keep hearing complaints about property rights …

How we are allowed to use our Own Property, things we have earned or things we have bought and paid for ….

I keep hearing people say that the WEF invented the idea that … “You will Own nothing and be Happy”

Really ????

Isn’t this the Communist Manifesto ?

Isn’t this just Communist Propaganda ????

Is this The New World Order ?

Or is this Anarchy ?

Why does everyone want to take away my Property ? My property rights. My freedom to own something.

Our Freedoms… Our livelihood ? The things we have earned through very hard work.

People seem very very confused.

What’s up ?

We want Anarchy now ?

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This is what Anarchy says …

Property is Theft.

IN 1840, TWO SHORT EXPRESSIONS, A MERE SEVEN WORDS, TRANSFORMED socialist politics forever. One, only four words long, put a name to a tendency within the working class movement: “I am an Anarchist.” The other, only three words long, presented a critique and a protest against inequality which still rings: “Property is Theft!”

Their author, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865), was a self-educated son of a peasant family and his work, What Is Property?, ensured he became one of the leading socialist thinkers of the nineteenth century. From his works and activity, the libertarian[2] movement was born: that form of socialism based on “the denial of Government and of Property.”[3] It would be no exaggeration to state that if you do not consider property as “theft” and “despotism” and oppose it along with the state then you are not a libertarian. As George Woodcock summarised:

“What is Property? embraces the core of nineteenth century anarchism... all the rest of later anarchism is there, spoken or implied: the conception of a free society united by association, of workers controlling the means of production. Later Proudhon was to elaborate other aspects: the working class political struggle as a thing of its own, federalism and decentralism as a means of re-shaping society, the commune and the industrial association as the important units of human intercourse, the end of frontiers and nations. But What is Property?... remains the foundation on which the whole edifice of nineteenth century anarchist theory was to be constructed.”[4]

Is it the Communists who want your Property ?

Or is it the Anarchists ???

Proudhon makes a critical investigation—the first resolute, ruthless, and at the same time scientific investigation—of the basis of political economy, private property. This is the great scientific advance he made, an advance which revolutionises political economy and for the first time makes a real science of political economy possible.[25]

Proudhon’s critique rested on two key concepts. Firstly, property allowed the owner to exploit its user (“property is theft”[26] ). Secondly, that property created authoritarian and oppressive social relationships between the two (“property is despotism”). These are interrelated, as it is the relations of oppression that property creates which allows exploitation to happen and the appropriation of our common heritage by the few gives the rest little alternative but to agree to such domination and let the owner appropriate the fruits of their labour.

Source: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/pierre-joseph-proudhon-property-is-theft#toc3

So Anarchists are really Communists pretending to want Complete Freedom to own nothing.

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  ·  3 years ago  ·  

Your obviously just getting into anarchy and still have no idea what you are talking about. Anarchy speaks for itself. Does not need some guys opinion to describe what it is.

But nonetheless we try to be more specific with each passing generation.

Granted the idea of anarchist is new and there is nothing that holds truth that is new in this universe that isn't already ancient. Hence why it is "new" again. "There is nothing new under the sun" Therefore I am ancient.

Larken Rose "The most dangerous superstition" Not fonna stop recommending that one first to read but here is also a video that better describes what it is by telling you what it is NOT.

  ·  3 years ago  ·  

Products are made with labels. When they are imported to another country they are given additional labels. It gets to the point that there are so many labels on the product that it is difficult to know which one really is the correct label.


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  ·  3 years ago  ·  

Labels ? Who reads labels.

  ·  3 years ago  ·   (edited)

Is the existence of the product rely on the label for it to be?

  ·  3 years ago  ·  

You got it.

"Is the existence of the product rely on the label for it to be?"

That is my essential question.

Why call it anything but BLURT!!!


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  ·  3 years ago  ·  

Isn't 'you will own nothing and be happy' capitalism at it's finest? Big companies buying up housing so that rent goes straight to them and no one can afford to buy? Idk.

  ·  3 years ago  ·  

It’s all Communism if you ask me.

  ·  3 years ago  ·  

Anarchists = Communists

  ·  3 years ago  ·   (edited)

No.

I am all for private ownership. I own stuff and I’m happy.

I earn crypto to buy land to grow my own food, and then I sell whatever is left over. Mostly apples.

Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. Central characteristics of capitalism include capital accumulation, competitive markets, price system, private property, property rights recognition, voluntary exchange, and wage labor.

  ·  3 years ago  ·  

Yeah that's fine but when you manipulate the system to remove people's own ability to own property and are supported by banks and governments to do so that's hardly just selling apples..


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  ·  3 years ago  ·   (edited)

I think rent is a terrible idea. There is plenty of very cheap land available. Especially in Northern and Eastern Canada.

  ·  3 years ago  ·  

Totally but many people in urban areas won't have a choice..


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  ·  3 years ago  ·   (edited)

I am going to create a new Front end for blurt called Anarchist.blog … or Agorist.blog

I will be the Leader.

Who wants early entry ?

Equating owning property with theft sounds like a bit of a catch-22 to me.

  ·  3 years ago  ·  

It’s ridiculous. I think the only people who would say that Property is theft is people who don’t have any property and don’t want anyone else to have any.