Many are likely to at least partly subscribe to the philosophical ideal of individual liberty that is at the heart of private property anarchism but still think that the application of private property anarchist ideology to society would necessarily lead to chaos.
However, when the private property anarchist talks about leveling government, he is referring to the multitude of entities that infringe upon property rights, and disposing of all such entities and preventing them from reemerging would not only not create chaos, but would effect the very opposite outcome of restoring and maintaining perpetual order, peace, and prosperity forever.
Kevin Cornell is currently studying to get a B.S. degree in Liberal Studies from Southern Connecticut State University.
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One quibble: we do not own our labor. Labor is an action. We own our bodies. That gives us the derivative right to perform actions.
You’re right. Perhaps it should be changed to the following: “because every individual owns his physical body, he owns the right to sell his labor, since one’s labor is simply a product of one’s focused bodily movement.”
Kevin, I think this also is a bit of a compressed way of saying it. I wouldn’t call labor a product, but that’s a quibble. It’s just what you do. You can sell labor, but only in the sense that the action to be performed is a necessary condition for the payment to be made to you.
In other words, unlike a normal exchange–which is bilateral, in that A gives B title to (ownership of) something in exchange for something else that B gives A–the “sale of labor” is simply a unilateral title transfer. If A is to perform service or labor in exchange for some fee paid by B, then the only title transfer is from B to A: B’s money becomes A’s, IF and WHEN A performs the specified behavior. But B does not then become the “owner” of the labor. Suppose the service is the singing of a song. Once A has finished singing, it’s gone. B didn’t acquire ownership of anything. If I pay a masseuse I do not walk out owning a massage.
So it can be misleading to call it a sale of labor: to most people this conjures up the idea of a normal bilateral exchange, so it gives the impression that the “labor” is some thing, some substance, some separately ownable entity–which leads to all sorts of errors, including the erroneous notion of intellectual property.
I got you. I submitted a correction to Daniel Coleman that excises out the confusion and that helps the article to flow more smoothly.
For any who liked this piece, an essay of mine titled “A Natural Law Justification for Certain Forms of Anarchist Violence” should be published on dailyanarchist.com soon.
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