Re: Do Rights Exist?

Ron Allen wrote:
> Ron Allen wrote:
>  > Private property in the means of production is,
>  > and must be an exclusive right of property.  An
>  > exclusive right of property in the means of
>  > production is necessarily exclusionary.  At the
>  > historical beginnings of modern capitalism there
>  > were land enclosures in England -- the very
>  > birthplace of modern capitalism.
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> Michael Price wrote:
>  > But that was an anti-capitalist occurance and
>  > was done by people who neither were, nor wanted
>  > to be, capitalists.
>
> Ron Allen answers:
> What happened was the necessary and historical
> precursor of modern really-existing capitalism.

  What happened was specifically anti-capitalistic and
was a "neccesary precursor" only of those features
of the current system that are anti-capitalistic.

> What happened during the painful parturition of
> modern capitalism have become the grievous
> birthmarks of mature really-existing capitalism.
>
  But it wasn't capitalistic was it?  Far from created
private property rights it damaged them irrepairably.

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