Locke links the catalytic relationship between labor and property by citing a laborer as taking property “…out of the hands of nature…thereby appropriated it to himself.” (p. 20, $29) Thus, if anything requires labor, whatever the labor applies to, becomes the property of the person by association. The theory comments on Locke’s era of feudalism and refuting the lord-serf relationship. By this definition of private property, the land and the products produced belonging to the lords would then be the private property of each serf because the serfs are the faction laboring on the
Locke links the catalytic relationship between labor and property by citing a laborer as taking property “…out of the hands of nature…thereby appropriated it to himself.” (p. 20, $29) Thus, if anything requires labor, whatever the labor applies to, becomes the property of the person by association. The theory comments on Locke’s era of feudalism and refuting the lord-serf relationship. By this definition of private property, the land and the products produced belonging to the lords would then be the private property of each serf because the serfs are the faction laboring on the