Contents

Crisis and Kleptocracy: Bensaïd for Our Times

Robert Nichols

Notes on Translation

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”

Hybrid and Uncertain Property

Market versus Popular Economy

II. A Social War of Properties

The Right of Necessity versus the Right of Property

“Property Is Theft!”

Possession and Property

Theft or Exploitation

III. The Customary Right of the Poor to the Communal Goods of Humanity

The Privatization of Knowledge

The Privatization of Life

The Common Good and the Freely Given

Inappropriable Goods

Individual and Private Property

The Age of Access?

Enforcing Rights (against Existence)

Who Will Win?

Proceedings of the Sixth Rhine Province Assembly, Third Article: Debates on the Law Concerning the Theft of Wood

Karl Marx

Selected Works by Daniel Bensaïd

Notes

Index

About the Author