> to a trenchant analyst and critic of the workings of the global system of
> capitalist production, which cannot but be haunted by his living spectre.
>
> Trier early hours of 5th May 1818.
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>From the standpoint of a higher economic form of society, private ownership
of the globe by single individuals will appear quite as absurd as private
ownership of one man by another. Even a whole society, a nation, or even
all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not the owners of
the globe. They are only its possessors, its usufructuaries, and, like boni
patres familias, they must hand it down to succeeding generations in an
improved condition.
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