Capitalism with Michael Hardt
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Locke's Theorem of Private Property in Contemporary Capitalism
John Locke was an early, maybe the first, theorist of private property. He argued that what was common becomes private when a person mixes their labor with nature. The idea has been important ever since to legitimating not only property rights, but also settler colonialism from north america to israel.
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