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In reply to the discussion: Liberal or progressive? [View all]LooseWilly
(4,477 posts)enough with the land... as opposed to the European colonists who intended to farm it and "work" it.
Locke argued that it was the work that was the underpinning of ownership.
In the spirit of Locke, if a squatter breaks into an empty house, whether it be empty because the former owners have been forced out by foreclosure process... or maybe they're just staying in their summer home... in the spirit of Locke, if that squatter starts growing some tomatoes... then that house, that land... belongs to the squatter by rights of the work he or she is putting into it.
So... are you a Lockean Liberal? You would dismiss the Constitution in favor of Squatter's Rights? (As Locke would have done... presuming his works were not merely a hypocritical bit of lip service to justify the genocide of the Native Americans and the stealing of their continent as being "moral"...)