Crisis and Kleptocracy: Bensaïd for Our Times
Robert Nichols
The Dispossessed: Karl Marx’s Debates on Wood Theft and the Right of the Poor
I. The Law on the Theft of Wood and the Right of the Poor
“Rural Pauperism” and “Forest Malfeasance”
II. A Social War of Properties
The Right of Necessity versus the Right of Property
III. The Customary Right of the Poor to the Communal Goods of Humanity
The Privatization of Knowledge
The Common Good and the Freely Given
Individual and Private Property
Enforcing Rights (against Existence)
Karl Marx