Is Private Property a Form of Theft?

And if so: what should we do about it?

Jared A. Brock
Surviving Tomorrow
Published in
8 min readNov 22, 2022

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“Property is theft!”

Or so said Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, the father of mutualism and anarchism.

People who are closed-minded will find the idea that private property is theft utterly absurd, and will usually screech “communism!” without even considering the argument.

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