Property

Property-17.

Property constitutes an abstract plane upon
which all things may be things with one quality in
common, the quality of property. Land is the
primary form of property. Pastoralists acquire land
as private property through the forced dispossession
of peasants who once shared a portion of it in a
form of public ownership. Capital is the secondary
form of property, the privatisation of productive
assets in the form of tools, machines and working
materials. Capital, unlike land, is not in fixed
supply or disposition. It can be made and remade,
moved, aggregated and dispersed. An infinitely
greater degree of potential can be released from
the world as a productive resource once the
abstract plane of property includes both land and
capital -- such is capital's 'advance'.

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