“PROPERTY IN TOTO”: THE BASIC IDEA IS VERY SIMPLE (Eli Harman)(important idea) E

“PROPERTY IN TOTO”: THE BASIC IDEA IS VERY SIMPLE

(Eli Harman)(important idea)

Eli Harman: —“The term Curt Doolittle uses is “property in toto” (property in all of its forms.)

But the basic idea is simple as day. It’s just that property is whatever people demonstrate the willingness and ability to claim and defend as their own, either individually, or in common.

That could be physical, private, property, or it could be the market value of the same.

It could be physical, common, property, like a park.

It could be common, intangible, property, like public order and decency, the integrity of their language, truth in the “marketplace of ideas,” the ancestral gene pool, or something else.

It could be private but intangible, reputation, intellectual property, honor, etc…”— Eli Harman

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The institution of Property is held in place by competition via judicial competition using natural law. We do not have to advocate for any form or limit to the definition of property in order to limit ‘discretionary rule’ and to retain ‘rule of law’. We merely have to demonstrate that any claim to property was obtained by homesteading, transformation (production), or exchange, without violating the One Law of Natural Law: the requirement for productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfer limited to productive externality.

This technique is called Via Negativa: we do not define Property per se. We define only what Property is not: that which is claimed as property(control) but obtained by the imposition of costs upon that which others have invested to obtain an interest in.

Curt Doolittle

The Propertarian Institute

Kiev, Ukraine