On the Right and the Left

... There is a clear, timeless line behind every issue- this being the principle of private property (Locke 1690) vs. collective property (Marx 1870).
... The true Left are followers of Marx, a belief that all individual's incomes are to be considered collective property to be re-distributed by the state...thus, our communist medical "system", education "system", inter-governmental transfers, etc., etc...
... Equally, the Left is philosophically attracted to unions... considering a position of employment to be the collective property of both the employer and employee.
... We can endlessly, and fruitlessly, debate a thousand policies, but to address this central principle is to answer them all...