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| '''Property is theft!''' is a slogan coined by the ] ] ] in his book '']''. | |||
| While long ignored, the term has been resurrected by the ] and the ] believers. | |||
| ] and her ] followers often like to cite this slogan as an ], and as evidence of the contradictory nature of leftist thought, on the grounds that "theft" only has meaning when defined in terms of the taking of property, making it nonsensical to regard property itself as theft. | |||
| In response, it might be argued that the Objectivist critique is a misreading of Proudhon. Proudhon used "property" in a quite specialised sense, for example distinguishing private ''property'' from private ''possessions''. In the context of the slogan, "property" clearly refers to the former; that is, the holding of land and ], as opposed to personal effects. The argument expressed is that all property (but not all possessions) should be public property, with the consequence that ownership of private property constitutes theft or ] of public property. | |||
| It should also be noted that two other slogans of Proudhon's were "property is freedom" and "property is impossible", indicating that Proudhon was perhaps deliberately emphasising certain apparent contradictions in ideas about property. | |||
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