1690: Locke and labor

 
John Locke's Second Treatise of Government (1690)
"in which he argued that property rights are necessarily derived from labour. In working the land, one 'mixes one's labour' with it; in this way it becomes, in a sense, an extension of onesself. Lazy natives, according to Locke's disciples, didn't do that" [see separate notes, though, on indigenous land management]
 
"improving landlords"

> from David Graeber and David Wengrow's Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021)

> tagged with #timeline, #work, #property, #tribalism

> created September 19, 2024 at 11:31:30 AM


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