What Liberals Say » Private Property

Down with private property.

Debbie Sease — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:52:37 +0000

“We’re going to take on these phony property rights advocates and kick their butts.”

We’ll solve global warming if we abolish private property.

Louis Proyect — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:33:08 +0000

“The answer to global warming is in the abolition of private property and production for human need. A socialist world would place an enormous priority on alternative energy sources. This is what ecologically-minded socialists have been exploring for quite some time now.”

There should be no private property.

Brock Evans — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 21:27:00 +0000

“I think [private property] should be in the public domain. We should get it all. Be unreasonable. You can do it. Yesterday’s heresy is today’s common wisdom. So I would say, let’s take it back, let’s take it all back.”

Don’t believe in God or private property.

George Carlin — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:43:01 +0000

“The two big mistakes [are] the belief . . . that there’s a man in the sky with ten things he doesn’t want you to do and you’ll burn for a long time if you do them . . . and private property, which I think is at the core of our failure as a species.”

Rejecting private property.

Peter Berle — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:50:04 +0000

“We reject the idea of private property.”

The state is all-important.

Bernard Baruch — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:10:17 +0000

“Every man’s life is at the call of the nation and so must be every man’s property. We are living today in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is [his] only as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state.”