The Fallacy of Collectivism

in libertarianism •  6 years ago 

The individual capacity to claim ownership of value does not entail an intrinsic right to own property, but, I argue, this right is objectively normative nonetheless: it is a necessary condition of authority and responsibility – the capacity to attribute the consequences of action to the self – and is therefore indispensable to agency. All authority is reducible to individual ownership of action. Any alternative justification of authority, such as collectivism, socialism or communism, is unavoidably parasitic on actions ‘owned’ by individuals, amounting to a performative contradiction.....

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