In Proudhon’s period, the animating assumption of essentially all works on property was that God created the earth and gave it to mankind in common to use. This was the long-standing Christian view, which was notably reflected in Thomist thought and even received a ringing endorsement from John Locke.

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The Christianist idea of the common ownership of all of the earth is Proudhon’s starting point.

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