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If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.
-Ludwig Von Mises
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Ludwig Von Mises
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.
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If history could prove and teach us anything, it would be the private ownership of the means of production as a necessary requisite of civilization and material well-being. all civilizations have up to now been based on private property. only nations committed to the principle of private property have risen above penury and produced science, art, and literature. there is no experience to show that any other social system could provide mankind with any of the achievements of civilization.
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Monopolistic capitalism is to blame for this; it sunders the right to own property from responsibility that owning property involves. those who own only a few stocks have no practical control of any industry. they vote by postcard proxy, but they have rarely even seen "their" company. the two elements which ought to be inextricably joined in any true conception of private property - ownership and responsibility - are separated. those who own do not manage; those who manage; those who manage and work do not control or own.
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You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. but in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine tenths. you reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society.
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