Any plan which could be devised for reconciling it with the demands of the individual reason and will would end only in changing the thing while preserving the name.

Now, if we are honest truth-seekers, we shall avoid disputes about words.
Thus, communism violates the sovereignty of the conscience, and equality: the first, by restricting spontaneity of mind and heart, and freedom of thought and action; the second, by placing labor and laziness, skill and stupidity, and even vice and virtue on an equality in point of comfort.

For the rest, if property is impossible on account of the desire to accumulate, communism would soon become so through the desire to shirk.
II.

Property, in its turn, violates equality by the rights of exclusion and increase, and freedom by despotism.

The former effect of property having been sufficiently developed in the last three chapters, I will content myself here with establishing by a final comparison, its perfect identity with robbery.
The Latin words for robber are _fur_ and _latro;_ the former taken from the Greek {GREEK m }, from {GREEK m }, Latin _fero_, I carry away; the latter from {GREEK 'i }, I play the part of a brigand, which is derived from {GREEK i }, Latin _lateo_, I conceal myself.