ORIGIN OF PRIVATE PROPERTY

Origin of Private Property

Origin of Private Property

Introduction

Probably no inquiry has been as holly debated by mankind as has the problem of the source and justification of property. It may well have kept men aroused at all times and it is the origin of most bloody conflicts and transformations. In our own time it has came by a special sharpness since capitalism, which compelled the magnificent advancement of expertise into its service, has conceived in the modern proletariat a tremendous numerical most of persons for who the likelihood of owning their own house was extremely limited . The passionate revolt against these penalties was currently expressed by the pioneer of the French transformation of 1789,J. J. Rousseau, who called out in the second part of his Traité sur l'origine de l'inégalité parmi les hommes (1757): "The first man who put a fence round a part of land and put it in his mind to state: this is mine! and who discovered simpletons who accepted him, was the factual founder of bourgeois society.

Analysis

Above we considered separately each of the three major forms in which the state was constructed up on the ruins of the gentile constitution. Athens comprised the purest, most academic form. Here the state sprang directly and mostly out of the class antagonisms that evolved within gentile society. In Rome gentile humanity became an exclusive aristocracy amidst a many plebs, standing out-of-doors of it, having no privileges but only duties. The triumph of the plebs blew the vintage gentile constitution asunder and erected on its wrecks the state, in which both the gentile aristocracy and the plebs were shortly wholly absorbed. Finally, amidst the German vanquishers of the Roman domain, the state sprang up as a direct outcome of the conquest of large foreign territories, which the gentile constitution had no means of ruling. As this conquest did not necessitate either a grave struggle with the old community or a more sophisticated division of work, and as conquered and conquerors were almost at the same stage of financial development and therefore the financial basis of humanity remained the identical as before, thus, the gentile constitution could extend for numerous centuries in a changed, territorial pattern, in the shape of a assess constitution, and even rejuvenate itself for a time in enfeebled pattern in the noble and patrician families of later years, and even in peasant families, as in Dithmarschen (Walzer, 1983).

As distinct from the vintage gentile alignment, the state, first, splits up its topics according to territory. As we have glimpsed, the old gentile associations, constructed upon and held together by binds of body-fluid, became insufficient, largely because they presupposed that the members were compelled to a granted territory, a bond which had long ceased to exist. The territory stayed, but the persons had become mobile. Hence, partition according to territory was taken as the point of departure, and citizens were permitted to exercise their public privileges and obligations wherever they settled, irrespective ...