The Evolution of Property from Savagery to Civilization

Paul Lafargue was a French revolutionary Marxist socialist journalist, literary critic, political writer and activist. His best known work is The Right To Be Lazy.

Extract:
"Now having convinced ourselves that the existent forms of property are in a state of flux and evolution, we must be blind indeed if we refuse to admit that in the past also property was unstable, and that it has passed through different phases before arriving at the actual forms, which must, in their turn, resolve themselves and be replaced by other novel forms."