You have discovered arachnoanarchy

You have discovered arachnoanarchy
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Friday, September 22, 2006

property is a privilege not a right

I am going to make this simple and explicit. The next time some objectivist libertarian type tries to tell you property is a right, and is natural like: life, liberty, faith, belief, learning, pursuing happiness, being, etc., turn to them and tell them to "fuck off." They are blowing the proverbial fascist smoke up your ass. Property as a right, requires fundamentally taking and controlling something that can never actually belong to you. Property is acquired initially through violence, controlled by coercive threats, fear, intimidation and violence. It is inextricably linked to power, manifested either physically or economically. There can be no right, when one agent (governmental, military, posse, gang, bank, financial institution, etc.) takes the property and holds it claiming it is their right to "own" it. We can't own a piece of the planet, we can't own material possessions, we can't own children, we can't own space. Everytime some white dude in the US claims they own a home on some land, they are doing so intentionally ignoring the history of violence and genocide that allowed them to acquire the land in the first place. They fund through the one set of taxes they must hold dear, the security apparatus necessary to protect their property against others who, like them, want to take it and hold it. If a something can only be acquired and controlled through fear, it is not a right.