{"id":2719,"date":"2002-12-13T10:55:26","date_gmt":"2002-12-13T10:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=476"},"modified":"2002-12-13T10:55:26","modified_gmt":"2002-12-13T10:55:26","slug":"mine-mine-mine-all-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2719","title":{"rendered":"MINE!! MINE !! MINE!! ALL MINE!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finally got some time to scan the Blogverse today, and found a gem<\/a> over at Matthew Yglesias\u0092 &ltirony&gt although Matthew seems to mistakenly feel that putting blogs in alphabetical order on blogrolls is a Bad Thing &lt\/irony&gt<\/p>\n

\u0085<\/b>All together, it’s worth taking note of a certainly historical naivete that undergirds a lot of libertarian approaches to property rights. The patterns of ownership and wealth that currently exist in the US have been profoundly shaped by the government’s decision over a period of about 100 years to recognize and enforce property holdings that took the form of ownership of other human beings. One might want to add that the wholesale expropriation of North America’s indigenous inhabitants played a significant role as well. The point is that it’s not as if whatever property folks own nowadays came down to them through a series of morally pure transactions that would be desperately tainted by government interference. The state and coercive appropriations are the roots of property ownership all the way down.<\/I><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The conservatives share the libertarians worship of property rights as-they-are, and somehow take them as handed down on stone tablets, rather than as evolving social constructs (which they are).
\n(Note: I\u0092ll have more to say on containing contradictory positions sometime soon)
\nHaving said that, I\u0092ll switch sides and note that while property is an evolving social construct, a respect for property rights is nonetheless a critical part of what I would see as a just society. Because it\u0092s mutable doesn\u0092t mean it\u0092s anything we want it to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finally got some time to scan the Blogverse today, and found a gem over at Matthew Yglesias\u0092 &ltirony&gt although Matthew seems to mistakenly feel that putting blogs in alphabetical order on blogrolls is a Bad Thing &lt\/irony&gt \u0085All together, it’s worth taking note of a certainly historical naivete that undergirds a lot of libertarian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}