{"id":3714,"date":"2019-06-19T10:56:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T10:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/06\/19\/private-property\/"},"modified":"2019-06-19T10:56:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T10:56:33","slug":"private-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/06\/19\/private-property\/","title":{"rendered":"Private Property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">The right to private property is another thing leftists don&#39;t understand, unless it is&#0160;<em>their<\/em>&#0160;private property.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Albert Camus,<em>&#0160;Notebooks 1951-1959<\/em>, tr. Ryan Bloom, Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2010, p. 177:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">The Revolution is good. &#0160;But why? &#0160;One must have an idea of the civilization one wishes to create. &#0160;The abolition of property is not an end. &#0160;It is a means.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">This is foolish. Private property is the foundation of individual liberty. &#0160;The problem is not private property, but too few people owning property, property they have worked for, and thus value and care about. &#0160;I include among private property the means for the defense of life, liberty, and property against assorted malefactors from unorganized criminals to rogue elements in the government.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The right to private property is another thing leftists don&#39;t understand, unless it is&#0160;their&#0160;private property.&#0160; Albert Camus,&#0160;Notebooks 1951-1959, tr. Ryan Bloom, Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2010, p. 177: The Revolution is good. &#0160;But why? &#0160;One must have an idea of the civilization one wishes to create. &#0160;The abolition of property is not an end. &#0160;It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/06\/19\/private-property\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Private Property&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms","category-social-and-political-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}