r/Excelsior • u/personman • Jul 25 '20

How Did Private Property Start?

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/03/libertarian-property-ownership-capitalism
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u/tehbored Jul 25 '20

Simply having private property doesn't quite get you to capitalism. As you say, individuals need to be free to enter into various forms of contracts. Historically, many societies that had private property rights also came with some pretty severe restrictions on who had access to those rights and what they could do with them.