Download or read book What Is Property? - Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government written by Karl Marx and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Property is theft!" is a slogan coined by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon in "What is Property?" By "property", Proudhon referred to a concept regarding land property that originated in Roman law. Proudhon's concept of "property" was criticized by Karl Marx who wrote that the expression "property is theft" is self-refuting and unnecessarily confusing, stating that "'theft' as a forcible violation of property presupposes the existence of property" and condemning Proudhon for entangling himself in "all sorts of fantasies, obscure even to himself, about true bourgeois property".