Author(s)

Runian Wang^*, Yafei E

Department of Marxism, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China.

Property privatization is one of the core contents of Locke’s liberalist theory, and Locke’s argumentation on the rationality of property privatization begins with the rationality of land privatization. Locke has emphasized the indisputable private nature of labor and its significance in changing the natural state of land in the process of demonstrating the transformation of land from natural state to private state. Meanwhile, Locke has also demonstrated the importance of such transformation for human beings. In this process, Locke implied the theoretical presupposition of human selfishness, and then reasonably defended private ownership. Although Marx has pointed out the evil side of private ownership, few people can logically refute the argumentation of liberal private ownership. This paper sorts out the logical argumentation of Locke’s claim on land privatization, and logically analyzes the various possibilities of land ownership after the natural state of land is changed by labor, thus proving this theory’s one-sidedness of logic and arbitrariness of choice.

Locke, Land Privatization, Logic Defects

Wang, R. and E, Y. (2019) Analysis of the Logic Defects of Locke’s Claim on Land Privatization. Open Journal of Political Science, 9, 549-556. doi: 10.4236/ojps.2019.93032.