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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Private property/capital can be understood as theft because it requires an enclosure of the commons at its root, which is done by force more often than not.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

That's critique is more appropriate for something like land, but owning cnc machine and a patent doesn't translate to theft. the fact that workers who do stuff on these machines can't afford what they make does

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Okay Rousseau, but Marx' s argument is not that property isn't theft, but that that the existence of the term "Theft" requires accepting that property is valid