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Property: A Relational Perspective

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Douglas Sturm
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The great and chief end … of men's uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves under government, is the preservation of their property (John Locke).

The transformation of scattered private property, arising from individual labour, into capitalist private property is, naturally, a process incomparably more protracted, violent, and difficult, than the transformation of capitalist private property, already practically resting on socialized production, into socialized property. In the former case, we had the expropriation of the mass of the people by a few usurpers; in the latter, we have the expropriation of a few usurpers by the mass of the people. (Karl Marx).

Conditions of the common life of peoples have undergone a radical transformation from the seventeenth century to the present. The character of daily work, the form of family life, the structure of nations and empires in our times are fundamentally unlike those of three centuries ago. In the economic sector, property is among the categories of thought and practice whose features have been transfigured during the period.

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Journal of Law and Religion , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , 1986 , pp. 353 - 404
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Copyright © Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 1986

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