On a recent episode of Free Talk Live (Nov. 18, 2008) [starting at about 1:45:35, and in particular starting at about 1:55:18] one caller says he’s a communist, and then struggles with whether a person owns his own body or not. He doesn’t seem to realize that rights in bodies are but a type of property right and, in fact, meaningless without the right to homestead and privately own scarce resources. Indeed, as Hoppe observes: With this justification of a property norm regarding a person’s body it may seem that not much is won, as conflicts over bodies, for whose … Continue reading Communist Stumbles into Self-Ownership