Well, not being able to own property because of financial reasons is not necessarily evil, but being prohibited from acquiring and owning property is evil.TheRedPriest wrote:The inability to own property is, of itself, not evil.
Another evil of the Soviet Union (not Communism per se) was the prohibition on emigration.
China is more authoritarian now than Communist. In some ways (lower taxes, frex.) it is more capitalist than the U.S.China isn't making it either w/o adapting.
The English monarchy under which Locke lived might have done this, but in general property rights are better protected under a monarchy than under any other system of government, including democracy. In fact I would say our current system in the U.S. regards property as something exclusively created by the government. For instance, there is no State in the Union in which one can homestead any more (Alaska was the last but abolished it in 1995). So one must acquire property either from the previous owner or from the State.Ermanaric wrote:Much like the monarchy to which Locke criticized*
