The Basis of Property is Labor

John Locke
15 pages (2008/1915); 149KB download
WOWIO Books; ISBN: WOWIO-00378

DESCRIPTION

John Locke’s argument resonated well in the emerging seventeenth century political economy and afterward: God, wrote Locke, has given the world to mankind in common. When a person takes something from “the state nature has provided, and left it in, he hath mixed his labors with, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property.”