Property And Freedom

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Richard Pipes

2010年9月 · Random House

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One of the most enduring dreams is of a Utopian society in which all possessions are held in common ownership, and there is never a quarrel over "mine" and "thine". As Professor Pipes argues in this book, such a dream has never been translated into reality in the secular world, despite the best efforts of socialist and communist ideologues. Acquisitiveness is deeply ingrained in all living creatures and all societies for both economic and psychological reasons. Where there are no guarantees of property there are no limits to state authority and no regulatory bodies of law, and hence no guarantee of individual liberty, or "civil rights". Herein lies the crux of the author's argument.

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Richard Pipes, Polish by birth, was educated at Cornell and Harvard Universities. Since 1950 he has taught continuously at Harvard, where he is Baird Professor of History. He served from 1981-2 on President Reagan's National Security Council as Director of Soviet and East European Affairs.