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| + | ''If I were asked to answer the following question: ''What is [[slavery]]?'' and I should answer in one word, ''It is [[murder]]!'', my meaning would be understood at once. No extended argument would be required . . . Why, then, to this other question: ''What is [[property]]?'' may I not likewise answer, ''It is [[robbery]]!'', without the certainty of being misunderstood; the second proposition being no other than a transformation of the first?'' - Proudhon, What is Property? | ||
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Latest revision as of 13:32, 14 July 2008
Property is theft! is a slogan coined by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon in his 1840 book What is Property? Or, an Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government.
If I were asked to answer the following question: What is slavery? and I should answer in one word, It is murder!, my meaning would be understood at once. No extended argument would be required . . . Why, then, to this other question: What is property? may I not likewise answer, It is robbery!, without the certainty of being misunderstood; the second proposition being no other than a transformation of the first? - Proudhon, What is Property?
