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The term Propertarianism has been used to describe various views regarding private property. Those holding positive views on property rights may be described as propertarian. However, others opposed to private property may be described as non-propertarian or anti-propertarian.
[edit] PropertarianismHistorian Marcus Cunliffe used it in 1973 lectures to apply to "characteristic values of American history" in regard to property.[1][2][3][4] Hans Morgenthau used it in a more limited way to characterize the connection between property and suffrage.[5] L. Neil Smith describes propertarianism as a positive libertarian philosophy in his novels The Probability Broach (1980) and The American Zone (2002).[6][7] Ronald Hamowy describes Murray Rothbard's form of libertarianism as "propertarian" because he "reduced all human rights to rights of property, beginning with the natural right of self-ownership."[8] Rothbardian libertarian anarchism or anarcho-capitalism advocate that property only may originate by being the product of labor, and may then only legitimately change hands by trade or gift. They term this as "neo-Lockean".[9] Other libertarians question the self-ownership view on the grounds people can't be property, even of themselves, and that by ignoring the psychological aspects of being, the viewpoint downplays the concept that "liberty defined by self-determination is the control of choice in human life and development."[10] David Boaz writes that the "propertarian approach to privacy," both morally and legally, has ensured Americans' privacy rights.[11] [edit] Non- or anti-propertarianismUrsula K. Le Guin used the term in the science fiction novel The Dispossessed (1974) to contrast a society based on property rights in contrast to one which does not recognize them.[12][13] She used it in a negative sense because she believed property objectified human beings. She has been described as an anarcho-communist.[14][15] Non-propertarians like Murray Bookchin also have been called anti-propertarians. Bookchin described three concepts of possession: property itself, possession, and usufruct, appropriation of resources by virtue of use.[16] [edit] In relation to copyright lawsNon-propertarians and anarchists claim freedom of expression is not possible without abolition of intellectual property laws.[16] The Indymedia experiment" has been described as opposition to "propertarian information control" by anarchist-oriented opponents of "corporativism."[17] Those with non-propertarian ideas have developed open systems like Linux and alternative methods of musical and other creative distribution.[18] Libertarians who generally support property rights may be non-propertarian in relation to intellectual property.[19] John Markoff, in What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry contrasts "information propertarians" - who want strict enforcement of copyright law in relation to use of the internet - with "information libertarians" who have a more flexible view of such intellectual property rights.[20] However, his approach has been criticized as being out of date for ending its analysis in the mid-1970s.[21] [edit] See also[edit] References
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