politics

On property...Rousseau

"The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying 'This is mine' and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, murders, horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind by pulling up the stakes or filling up the ditch and crying to his fellows; 'Beware of listening to this imposter', you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Author of The Social Contract, http://www.constitution.org/jjr/socon.htm, which heavily influenced the French and American Revolutions....

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