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Capitalism and the constitution of the self

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Carl Beijer
May 04, 2018
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Matt Bruenig, on a standard defense of private property:

They take as a given the general intuition people have that it’s wrong to violate other people’s bodies – it’s wrong to hit someone, it’s wrong to molest someone – and then they try to extend your person into non-person things. So they try to say, “This land is sort of like my body…”

Leftists, of co…

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