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What's the socialist's criteria for what is and isn't property? Most law systems', even socialist systems', criteria for what is and isn't property makes it pretty easy to own lots of stuff, but not planet earth.
Anyway, you seem to be exploring theories of property acquisition as well. To help you along, there're 4 questions basic to property law (as borrowed from Cooter's and Ulen's Law & Economics, 2003, pg 77):
1. How are ownership rights established?
2. What can be privately owned?
3. What may owners do with their property?
4. What are the remedies for the violation of property rights?
The typical Objectivist answer is, though not mine, is:
1. First in time to do something or other with the soon-to-be property, has the right to the property.
2. Everything.
3. Anything they want to.
4. This one varies, anywhere from fining to killing the violater.
Objectivists are keen on integration, so they'll urge you to read these answers "integratively."
Hope that helps,
Jordan
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