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What is Property?

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But it is then that the sovereignty of thought, and the terrible faculty of reasoning logically or illogically, teach man that, if equality is the sine qua non of society, communism is the first species of slavery.

To express this idea by an Hegelian formula, I will say: Communism--the first expression of the social nature--is the first term of social development,--the THESIS; property, the reverse of communism, is the second term,--the ANTITHESIS.

When we have discovered the third term, the SYNTHESIS, we shall have the required solution.

Now, this synthesis necessarily results from the correction of the thesis by the antithesis.

Therefore it is necessary, by a final examination of their characteristics, to eliminate those features which are hostile to sociability.


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