TITLE:
Analysis of the Logic Defects of Locke’s Claim on Land Privatization
AUTHORS:
Runian Wang, Yafei E
KEYWORDS:
Locke, Land Privatization, Logic Defects
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Political Science,
Vol.9 No.3,
July
19,
2019
ABSTRACT: 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.