| | From THE OBJECTIVIST NEWSLETTER, February, 1962:
Why do Objectivists maintain that without property rights, no other rights are possible?
The right of property is the right of use and disposal. If one is not free to use that which one has produced, one does not possess the right of liberty. If one is not free to make the products of one's work serve one's chosen goals, one does not possess the right to the pursuit of happiness. And--since man is not a ghost who exists in some non-material manner--if one is not free to keep and to consume the products of one's work, one does not possess the right of life. In a society where men are not free privately to own the material means of production, their position is that of slaves whose lives are at the absolute mercy of their rulers. --Nathaniel Branden
- Bill
(Edited by William Dwyer
on 3/28, 11:36pm)
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