... own physical being. It followed therefore that man has a property right in his labour, and that when his labour is mixed with the fruit of nature, a property right is created, hence Locke's 'labour theory'. Secondly Hegel theorised that a man's will is his property, and so a property right is extended to all objects over which the will is exercised. Since any objective expression of will is made through one's property, one's property becomes the embodiment of one's will, it follows that to exist as an individual one must have property. These theories both seek to justify the concept of private property, and emphasise the individual nature of property. To illustrate this I will outline the theory which is the antithesis of both these theories, and the whole liberal classical ethos. Marx, in his Communist Manifesto (1848) proposed the abolition of the whole concept of private property, because ...

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