#private-property — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #private-property, aggregated by home.social.
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Growing up, I was always told to mock #socialism as a form of utopianism, as if that was a bad thing. #Utopianism was never a belief that something would happen, or that anything would be perfect. It was a thought experiment to consider what a perfect outcome would look like, so we could implement the ideas and get as close as possible. Meanwhile, #capitalism , #conservatism , #liberalism , and #libertarianism are just as #utopian in their dreams. Capitalism and libertarianism believe that if we JUST get government out of the way, we could have the #freemarkets work the way they are supposed to and lead to prosperity for all, never mind that corporations only exist because of #bankruptcy laws and standards created by Congress. Modern conservatism believes that if we just went back to a specific, unspecified time point when religion ruled, we would have prosperity again, never mind that America was never like that, even when we were at our most religious. #Liberals believe that if freedom, equality, and equity are guaranteed, but with a true free market that does require governments to regulate it, we would have true prosperity. The only difference is that #Marx , using arguments by #AdamSmith himself, poked holes in all of these ideas at their core. That the structure itself needed an overhaul of who holds power, or at least patched with a strong welfare state, and to work toward that utopian dream where the people held the power instead of the lords or #oligarchs and everyone was a lawmaker with direct democracy, there was a return of #thecommons that was just the norm for most of human history, and #personalproperty was something you physically used, erned and worked instead of from trading, hoarding and wasting while people starved aka #privateproperty . The day the lords stole the commons from the people was the day that socialism started to exist, with the Diggers and the Levelers attempting to take on the power of the lords and realizing they already ran their own villages, or communes and affairs in their areas, and the lords were just a middleman that contributed little to nothing. Hence the term #communism , which is a return to the natural commons people like #John Locke and #Voltaire and other #Enlightenment thinkers idealized, but capitalism has brainwashed people to ignore, forget, or never know in the first place they believed this while we were told to look up to them. Utopianism gives us the power to dream, to coalesce our ideas and our ideals. When we were told not to dream of our ideal world but were told to dream of their ideal, that's when the dream died and we just all became doomers. -
Growing up, I was always told to mock #socialism as a form of utopianism, as if that was a bad thing. #Utopianism was never a belief that something would happen, or that anything would be perfect. It was a thought experiment to consider what a perfect outcome would look like, so we could implement the ideas and get as close as possible. Meanwhile, #capitalism , #conservatism , #liberalism , and #libertarianism are just as #utopian in their dreams. Capitalism and libertarianism believe that if we JUST get government out of the way, we could have the #freemarkets work the way they are supposed to and lead to prosperity for all, never mind that corporations only exist because of #bankruptcy laws and standards created by Congress. Modern conservatism believes that if we just went back to a specific, unspecified time point when religion ruled, we would have prosperity again, never mind that America was never like that, even when we were at our most religious. #Liberals believe that if freedom, equality, and equity are guaranteed, but with a true free market that does require governments to regulate it, we would have true prosperity. The only difference is that #Marx , using arguments by #AdamSmith himself, poked holes in all of these ideas at their core. That the structure itself needed an overhaul of who holds power, or at least patched with a strong welfare state, and to work toward that utopian dream where the people held the power instead of the lords or #oligarchs and everyone was a lawmaker with direct democracy, there was a return of #thecommons that was just the norm for most of human history, and #personalproperty was something you physically used, erned and worked instead of from trading, hoarding and wasting while people starved aka #privateproperty . The day the lords stole the commons from the people was the day that socialism started to exist, with the Diggers and the Levelers attempting to take on the power of the lords and realizing they already ran their own villages, or communes and affairs in their areas, and the lords were just a middleman that contributed little to nothing. Hence the term #communism , which is a return to the natural commons people like #John Locke and #Voltaire and other #Enlightenment thinkers idealized, but capitalism has brainwashed people to ignore, forget, or never know in the first place they believed this while we were told to look up to them. Utopianism gives us the power to dream, to coalesce our ideas and our ideals. When we were told not to dream of our ideal world but were told to dream of their ideal, that's when the dream died and we just all became doomers. -
Engineer says 50 years of erosion research ignored by government and courts
"I've come to the conclusion, after 50 years, that there's very little other option than for the Australian government, Australia-wide, to just simply say, 'You can enjoy the coast while it's there, but property owners cannot protect their property.' End of story," Mr Gordon said."
"The Byron and Tweed Shire councils were urged to control development within 1 kilometre of the shoreline, and stipulate landholders who disregarded the policy did so "at their own risk".
The paper 'Beach law in the anthropocene' "reviewed legal systems around the world and found private property rights trumped public interest...Our common law tradition assumes coastlines are stable and coastal property boundaries can be fixed...But as the effects of climate change become more dramatic, those assumptions no longer hold."
"Professor Smith said it was time for tough discussions about a transition strategy.
"We really need to think about what sort of future we want for the coastal zone, and we need to resolve who bears the ultimate rights and responsibilities for these lands — whether we are going to preference private property rights over public rights, whether we're going to preference people's rights over nature's rights," he said."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-05/beach-erosion-expert-claims-research-ignored/106746240
#erosion #coast #NSW #PrivateProperty #rights #FossilFuels #science #climatefiasco #roads #PublicInterest #CompulsoryAcquisition #governance #law -
Engineer says 50 years of erosion research ignored by government and courts
"I've come to the conclusion, after 50 years, that there's very little other option than for the Australian government, Australia-wide, to just simply say, 'You can enjoy the coast while it's there, but property owners cannot protect their property.' End of story," Mr Gordon said."
"The Byron and Tweed Shire councils were urged to control development within 1 kilometre of the shoreline, and stipulate landholders who disregarded the policy did so "at their own risk".
The paper 'Beach law in the anthropocene' "reviewed legal systems around the world and found private property rights trumped public interest...Our common law tradition assumes coastlines are stable and coastal property boundaries can be fixed...But as the effects of climate change become more dramatic, those assumptions no longer hold."
"Professor Smith said it was time for tough discussions about a transition strategy.
"We really need to think about what sort of future we want for the coastal zone, and we need to resolve who bears the ultimate rights and responsibilities for these lands — whether we are going to preference private property rights over public rights, whether we're going to preference people's rights over nature's rights," he said."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-05/beach-erosion-expert-claims-research-ignored/106746240
#erosion #coast #NSW #PrivateProperty #rights #FossilFuels #science #climatefiasco #roads #PublicInterest #CompulsoryAcquisition #governance #law -
Man Arrested for Stealing ‘44 Bottles of Wine’ From Private Property, French Officials Say
A man has been arrested in France after trying to get away with a hefty amount of alcohol, police say. Accor…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Frenchwine #FrenchWine #bottlesofwine #Eysines #francais #france #French #frenchwine #PoliceNationale #policepatrol #privateproperty #Wine
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2746901/man-arrested-for-stealing-44-bottles-of-wine-from-private-property-french-officials-say/ -
Man Arrested for Stealing ‘44 Bottles of Wine’ From Private Property, French Officials Say
A man has been arrested in France after trying to get away with a hefty amount of alcohol, police say. Accor…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Frenchwine #FrenchWine #bottlesofwine #Eysines #francais #france #French #frenchwine #PoliceNationale #policepatrol #privateproperty #Wine
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2746901/man-arrested-for-stealing-44-bottles-of-wine-from-private-property-french-officials-say/ -
Man Arrested for Stealing ‘44 Bottles of Wine’ From Private Property, French Officials Say https://www.diningandcooking.com/2746901/man-arrested-for-stealing-44-bottles-of-wine-from-private-property-french-officials-say/ #BottlesOfWine #Eysines #francais #france #French #FrenchWine #PoliceNationale #PolicePatrol #PrivateProperty #Wine
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Man Arrested for Stealing ‘44 Bottles of Wine’ From Private Property, French Officials Say https://www.diningandcooking.com/2746901/man-arrested-for-stealing-44-bottles-of-wine-from-private-property-french-officials-say/ #BottlesOfWine #Eysines #francais #france #French #FrenchWine #PoliceNationale #PolicePatrol #PrivateProperty #Wine
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Deepak Rauniyar and Asha Magrati’s ‘Private Property’ Boards Parallax Films, Unveils Clip Ahead of Locarno World Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)
#Variety #Asia #Festivals #Global #News #DeepakRauniyar #LocarnoFilmFestival #ParallaxFilms #PrivateProperty -
Deepak Rauniyar and Asha Magrati’s ‘Private Property’ Boards Parallax Films, Unveils Clip Ahead of Locarno World Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)
#Variety #Asia #Festivals #Global #News #DeepakRauniyar #LocarnoFilmFestival #ParallaxFilms #PrivateProperty -
#SCOTUS on Thursday sided with #Trump admin backed lawsuits brought by the #HavanaDocksCorporation, a US-owned port business, whose dock front property was seized in 1960 when #FidelCastro came to power in #Cuba & #nationalized #PrivateProperty, possibly opening the door for similar claims from #US companies & individuals.
#law #geopolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/us/politics/supreme-court-cuba-cruises-oil.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
#SCOTUS on Thursday sided with #Trump admin backed lawsuits brought by the #HavanaDocksCorporation, a US-owned port business, whose dock front property was seized in 1960 when #FidelCastro came to power in #Cuba & #nationalized #PrivateProperty, possibly opening the door for similar claims from #US companies & individuals.
#law #geopolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/us/politics/supreme-court-cuba-cruises-oil.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
Spokesman-Review: WA homeowners, farmers say their land is being stolen for data centers. “Data centers are demanding more energy than ever to fuel artificial intelligence, and the utility is not only running out of locally sourced electricity but also power-line capacity. To build more, the [Grant County Public Utility District] considered running lines through public lands, protected […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/16/spokesman-review-wa-homeowners-farmers-say-their-land-is-being-stolen-for-data-centers/ -
Spokesman-Review: WA homeowners, farmers say their land is being stolen for data centers. “Data centers are demanding more energy than ever to fuel artificial intelligence, and the utility is not only running out of locally sourced electricity but also power-line capacity. To build more, the [Grant County Public Utility District] considered running lines through public lands, protected […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/16/spokesman-review-wa-homeowners-farmers-say-their-land-is-being-stolen-for-data-centers/ -
Gardener Says a Local Family Treats Her Backyard Garden Like a Public Park, Now She’s Limiting Access Completely https://www.allforgardening.com/1768953/gardener-says-a-local-family-treats-her-backyard-garden-like-a-public-park-now-shes-limiting-access-completely/ #garden #gardener #gardening #PrivateProperty #TheFamily #TheGardener
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Gardener Says a Local Family Treats Her Backyard Garden Like a Public Park, Now She’s Limiting Access Completely https://www.allforgardening.com/1768953/gardener-says-a-local-family-treats-her-backyard-garden-like-a-public-park-now-shes-limiting-access-completely/ #garden #gardener #gardening #PrivateProperty #TheFamily #TheGardener
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Would be 90+ storey monstrosity stopped https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-13/trump-tower-gold-coast-plans-scrapped/106673096
Community rejected (and “investors” fall-out ?)
https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-proposed-trump-tower-development-on-the-gold-coast/u/34597323?Altus Property vs Trump Organ (Mar-A-Lardo)
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/13/trump-tower-australia-gold-coast-scrapped-ntwnfb -
Would be 90+ storey monstrosity stopped https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-13/trump-tower-gold-coast-plans-scrapped/106673096
Community rejected (and “investors” fall-out ?)
https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-proposed-trump-tower-development-on-the-gold-coast/u/34597323?Altus Property vs Trump Organ (Mar-A-Lardo)
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/13/trump-tower-australia-gold-coast-scrapped-ntwnfb -
The Final Straw Radio Podcast | A weekly Anarchist Radio Show & Podcast [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·The Religious Function of Whiteness and Mass Criminalization in the US (with Andrew Krinks)
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The Final Straw Radio Podcast | A weekly Anarchist Radio Show & Podcast [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·The Religious Function of Whiteness and Mass Criminalization in the US (with Andrew Krinks)
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In this second of two essays, I discuss the immorality of property, even deeper than the first post yesterday.
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/before-the-fence-the-self
#philosophy #language #ontology #criticaltheory #blog #podcast #property #rights #privateproperty #propertyrights #justification #metaphysics #consciousness #phenomenology #ethics #philosophyofmind #identity #personalidentity #apples #essay #substack
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In this second of two essays, I discuss the immorality of property, even deeper than the first post yesterday.
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/before-the-fence-the-self
#philosophy #language #ontology #criticaltheory #blog #podcast #property #rights #privateproperty #propertyrights #justification #metaphysics #consciousness #phenomenology #ethics #philosophyofmind #identity #personalidentity #apples #essay #substack
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I've argued that property rights are immoral. Now, I've shared a pair of posts that argue at a deeper level. This is the first:
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/the-fence-before-the-field
#Philosophy #substack #blog #podcast #language #ontology #criticaltheory #anarchism #politicalphilosophy #politicaleconomy #economics #locke #rousseau #propertyrights #property #privateproperty
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I've argued that property rights are immoral. Now, I've shared a pair of posts that argue at a deeper level. This is the first:
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/the-fence-before-the-field
#Philosophy #substack #blog #podcast #language #ontology #criticaltheory #anarchism #politicalphilosophy #politicaleconomy #economics #locke #rousseau #propertyrights #property #privateproperty
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The army’s enlisted men helped build this fence
Specifically, Private Fishing and Private Property.
#dadJokeWithPhoto #dadJokes #PrivateFishing #PrivateProperty -
The army’s enlisted men helped build this fence
Specifically, Private Fishing and Private Property.
#dadJokeWithPhoto #dadJokes #PrivateFishing #PrivateProperty -
The reason I think #MatriarchalCommunism is the next (or first!?) truly civilized "phase" (if we survive this) is because the rise of primative #accumulation and #capitalism, including the #enclosures of #public #land transfomed into #private, the development of #wage #labor following the #crisis of european “need” for expanding #markets and labor, and the witch trials and murders (10s of thousands of basic #sisters, daughters, and #grandmothers) created or deepened (while adding 100% incrs of intensity of #misogyny) the line between men/male and women/female (less than), while hitherto, communities included #identities and #labor performed independently or in #untraditional #families.
Previous to “Oh shit the world is round!” the #complementary #division of labor for #families in the structure meant women's #work was valued, #compensated with #trade and #respect. #Euro-Colonialist states and the church’s (both #Protestant and #Catholic) #insatiable #desire for #freelabor and #profit purposefully created #genders #races and #childabuse. Before, there were territories and natural boundaries. after the violent and terrifying rise of #privateproperty in #Europe they demanded heirarchies binaries to separate who profits from who labors and who slaves
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Whose property do the communists want to destroy?
"You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society."
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, “The Communist Manifesto.” 1847.
#^https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch02.htm
#capitalism #poverty #democracy #property #privateproperty #workersrights #humanrights #social-justice #quote #Marx #Engels #history #socialism #communism -
Perhaps property is where an end to the corporate and people divide can be agreed on? The relation of investors to people has become so extreme; accelerating inequality and injustice that a cap on fascist growth must be called for before violent revolutions and or civil wars takes place! #CorporateProperty #PrivateProperty #Lettings #Renters #FairDeal #JusticeForEpsteinVictims #Revolutions #CivilWars https://www.npr.org/2026/01/20/nx-s1-5675241/wall-street-backed-landlords-targeted-trump-democrats
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Perhaps property is where an end to the corporate and people divide can be agreed on? The relation of investors to people has become so extreme; accelerating inequality and injustice that a cap on fascist growth must be called for before violent revolutions and or civil wars takes place! #CorporateProperty #PrivateProperty #Lettings #Renters #FairDeal #JusticeForEpsteinVictims #Revolutions #CivilWars https://www.npr.org/2026/01/20/nx-s1-5675241/wall-street-backed-landlords-targeted-trump-democrats
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‘Seize private property’: NYC’s socialist mayor taps communist sympathizer to lead office to ‘Protect Tenants’
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Simon Fairlie on Enclosure
'the common ownership of land, and the history of its enclosure, provides a template for understanding the enclosure of other common resources, ranging from the atmosphere and the oceans to pollution sinks and intellectual property. The physical fences and hedges that staked out the privateownership of the fields of England, are shadowed by the metaphorical fences that now delineate more sophisticated forms of private property'
#commons #privateProperty #ownership #public #government
https://www.thelandmagazine.org.uk/articles/short-history-enclosure-britain
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Simon Fairlie on Enclosure
'the common ownership of land, and the history of its enclosure, provides a template for understanding the enclosure of other common resources, ranging from the atmosphere and the oceans to pollution sinks and intellectual property. The physical fences and hedges that staked out the privateownership of the fields of England, are shadowed by the metaphorical fences that now delineate more sophisticated forms of private property'
#commons #privateProperty #ownership #public #government
https://www.thelandmagazine.org.uk/articles/short-history-enclosure-britain
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“Enclaves for the rich” flaunt privilege & injustice to exclude “affordable housing” ?
#Bondi #Capitalism #gentrification #housingcrisis #Landlords #PrivateProperty #privatisation #Rent
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“Enclaves for the rich” flaunt privilege & injustice to exclude “affordable housing” ?
#Bondi #Capitalism #gentrification #housingcrisis #Landlords #PrivateProperty #privatisation #Rent
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The Quw’utsun (Cowichan) First Nation was exactly right in 2017:
""We don’t want to argue about settlers' interests versus First Nations' interests — we want to argue about what the Crown did wrong.””
They knew that if the case was framed as ‘taking over private property rights’, that it would be politicized and a lightning rod for racism and misinformation when that was not the point of their claim, which was against the Crown.
""It would be wrong. It’s wrong morally, it’s wrong legally. It’s pitting interests against each other when the person who caused the problem is the Crown.””
Another excellent report from CBC's Jason Proctor.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/cowichan-claim-aboriginal-private-property-9.7000502
#FirstNations #Cowichan #PrivateProperty #Indigenous #RightsandTitle #Land
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The Quw’utsun (Cowichan) First Nation was exactly right in 2017:
""We don’t want to argue about settlers' interests versus First Nations' interests — we want to argue about what the Crown did wrong.””
They knew that if the case was framed as ‘taking over private property rights’, that it would be politicized and a lightning rod for racism and misinformation when that was not the point of their claim, which was against the Crown.
""It would be wrong. It’s wrong morally, it’s wrong legally. It’s pitting interests against each other when the person who caused the problem is the Crown.””
Another excellent report from CBC's Jason Proctor.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/cowichan-claim-aboriginal-private-property-9.7000502
#FirstNations #Cowichan #PrivateProperty #Indigenous #RightsandTitle #Land