The Brown Book

Undated

Overview

Wagner argues that property can underpin a moral society only if everyone participates in possessing it. He accuses prevailing state theories of disguising the exclusion produced by conquest.

Content

Undated:

If property and its inviolable possession is to be reckoned the condition for the continuance of a moral society, then it becomes obvious that this can only be the case if no one is excluded from and everyone included in possessing it. Conquerors have understood it this way too in distributing property amongst themselves, only they have excluded the original owners. Our state theories accept the situation which has arisen from this as of necessity a given fact, and now all together tell lies for all they’re worth!