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You might be interested in what the Georgists and geo-libertarians have to say about the more common "royal libertarians" (the term they actually use). http://
by notacoward 8y ago
You might be interested in what the Georgists and geo-libertarians have to say about the more common "royal libertarians" (the term they actually use).
http://geolib.com/ http://geolib.com/
http://cgocouncil.org/cwho.html http://cgocouncil.org/cwho.html
Similar sentiments are to be found among mutualists, agorists, etc. Ownership of land specifically is ownership of property stolen from the commons during the era in which enclosure occurred. Those who pit absolutist interpretations of property rights against the need for democratic and responsive government are the intellectual and often financial descendants of kings and feudal lords. To the extent that other wealth is often derived from land wealth at some stage, it's often tainted as well. This is closely related to Proudhon's "property is theft" (specifically excluding labor-made wealth) and similar ideas going back to Saint Ambrose and Basil of Caesarea in the fourth century.
This is the real "trickle down" economics, but it only extends as far as the modern equivalent of courtiers and lesser gentry - not to the vast majority. Those on the system's fringes are often most wary of threats to it, often seeking to secure their position by loudly denouncing the unblessed rabble who would displace them in a truly free system.
- narrator 8y agoPrivate property laws as a moral value go back to at least the old testament. Ahab and Jezebel get vengeance from God for sneakily trying to take their neighbors property without compensation for example.
- notacoward 8y agoYes, the Old Testament is full of examples of how an idea being old isn't the same as it being good.