Capitalism and the constitution of the self
Matt Bruenig, on a standard defense of private property:
They take as a given the general intuition people have that it’s wrong to violate other people’s bodies – it’s wrong to hit someone, it’s wrong to molest someone – and then they try to extend your person into non-person things. So they try to say, “This land is sort of like my body…”
Leftists, of co…