The British philosopher and thinker Locke believed that private property is sacrosanct and inviolable, that labor not only creates value, but that the fruits of labor must become private property. The reason why private property is sacred and inviolable is precisely because private property integrates human labor, so the protection of private property is regarded as the boundary line of human morality.
Whoever violates the private property rights of mankind is destroying the moral bottom line of mankind and leaving his society in a state of disorder and disorder. If a society does not have private property rights, then morality may collapse at any time. Moreover, private property is the source of human justice and justice itself.
Marx's description of communist society is that the ultimate aim of mankind is to take the comprehensive and free development of each person as the basic principle of social form." So the end of communism lies in the total freedom of mankind. Therefore, the ultimate goal of human beings is not the right to property, but the right to freedom. Freedom can make life infinitely beautiful.
If human beings are free, life is nothing more than a labor tool of the walking dead. So what is freedom? It can be said that "where there is no law, there is no freedom". Reasonable freedom is freedom within the law, and there is no freedom outside the law. If there is freedom in the world beyond the law, it is called privilege, and privilege is the enemy of freedom. So how can the law guarantee freedom?
The economist Hayek said: If a man does not need to obey anyone, but only obeys the law, then he is free. It is not in any case too much to say that the purpose of the law is not to abolish and restrict freedom, but to protect and expand it.
In the French eighteenth-century Enlightenment thinker and philosopher Rousseau's biography On Democracy, Rousseau believed that a democratic government must completely hand over power to all the citizens of the country, and then all the citizens will give power to an organization, that is, a democratic government. The core idea of this "sovereignty lies in the people" is that power is publicly owned. When a state has public power, it means that the law grants citizens the maximum reasonable freedom.
Thinker Locke pointed out that a good government should not be an athlete when it is a referee, and if it is an athlete, it should not be a referee, and one or two terms of office both break the law and greatly harm freedom. Therefore, the purpose of the government soon became the purpose of the government itself, into a tool for the use of public power for private rights.
History proves that the characteristics of feudal royal power are the private ownership of power, the private ownership of power means totalitarian and tyranny, totalitarianism often has no power to limit, so tyranny must grow barbaric, tyranny is characterized by the people's fear of power and unreasonable restrictions on freedom, so that people become tools of labor, rather than the enjoyment of freedom.
The reason why Locke became a great thinker and philosopher is that he understood human nature, that human beings cannot pursue ideals contrary to the natural laws of human nature, and that those ideals that leave the horizon look as beautiful as heaven, but what really runs in practice is often the abyss of human beings, and when human beings lose the civilized bottom line of private property, they may enter the gates of hell.
Human nature has a selfish nature, and human nature also has an instinct for kindness and wisdom. The value of private property lies in the ability to maximize the development of productive forces, so as to provide society with more and better quality and rich products to meet people's growing material needs. The public ownership of power can guarantee the fairness and justice of a society to the greatest extent.
With regard to the fairness and justice of a society, some people have expounded it like this, that is, let the strong abide by the rules and let the weak have hope; let the able have play and let the poor have security; let the evil have reverence, and let the good have good rewards.
John Locke's personal rights are non-transferable, and the sanctity of private property is inviolable. Power cannot be privately owned, property cannot be publicly owned, or mankind will enter the door of disaster. This is the cautionary tale of a great philosopher. The economist Hayek spent his life proving to people that human prosperity, happiness and dignity come from the sanctity of private property, and the Nobel Laureate in Economics gave a comprehensive exposition on the value and meaning of freedom, Hayek's theory proved countless times in human history that equality can only arise in reasonable freedom, and slavery is often the price of losing freedom.
Practice has proved that freedom is a high degree of human civilization, and this high degree of civilization comes from a democratic society with public power. It can be seen from this that the private ownership of property is the bottom line of civilization, and the public power has the height of civilization. The protection of the sacredness of private property and the dictatorship of restricting power, which are the two keys to opening the door of modern civilization and looking out over the world, have become the basic principles of the operation of modern civilized society.