A fascinating article on Rousseau’s Form of Socialism, discovered today, which reproduces this quote:
The first man who, having enclosed a piece of land, took it into his head to say: “This belongs to me,” and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would have been spared the human race by him who, snatching out the stakes or filling in the ditch, should have cried to his fellows, “Beware of listening to this impostor; you are lost if you forget that the fruits belong to all and that the earth belongs to none.”
When a supposed intellectual has matters so very wrong, what is to be said? Read on…
