March 27, 2023
"If we assume that the individual has an indisputable right to life, we must concede that he has a similar right to the enjoyment of the products of his labor. This we call a property right. The absolute right to property follows from the original right to life because one without the other is meaningless; the means to life must be identified with life itself…We object to the taking of our property by organized society just as we do when a single unit of society commits the act…Robbery is robbery, and no amount of words can make it anything else."
Frank Chodorov
Absolutely correct. The first property right is the right to own YOURSELF, meaning your life is yours and you own it. Hence you have a right to life. And if you own your own life you have a right to own other stuff, particularly that which you have made or trade what you have made to acquire Property rights and human rights are unseverable. I made this connection at American Thinker years ago. https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2013/05/the_individual_as_property.html I also pointed out that property rights are the first right and from them spring all others. https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2005/06/the_first_right.html There is no such thing as a free society without property rights. .
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