Sections 1.2, "Law & Property"
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Private ownership, originally a means to give everybody the possibility of productive work, now has turned into the means to prevent the workers from the free use of the instruments of production. Originally a means to ascertain to the workers the fruits of their labor, it now turned into a means to deprive the workers of the fruits of their labor for the benefit of a class of useless parasites.

— Antonie Pannekoek

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Private ownership, originally a means to give everybody the possibility of productive work, now has turned into the means to prevent the workers from the free use of the instruments of production. Originally a means to ascertain to the workers the fruits of their labor, it now turned into a means to deprive the workers of the fruits of their labor for the benefit of a class of useless parasites." in the context of "Sections 1.2, "Law & Property"" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Antonie Pannekoek

About Antonie Pannekoek

Antonie Pannekoek (2 January 1873 – 28 April 1960) was a Dutch astronomer, Marxist theorist, and social revolutionary.