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Rothbard is an interesting one in this case, though. He didn't think things like water were a right, but he also didn't think that most current corporations legitimately owned their property, since its acquisition was tainted (in most cases) by deep entanglement with government. He wasn't entirely consistent on the remedy, but at times he agreed with leftists that it was legitimate for workers to expropriate their employers' property and reconstitute factories/etc. under new ownership, though he disagreed on the reasons why. This entanglement between JP Morgan and the Birmingham government is an illustration of why he came to those kinds of conclusions (viz., that JP Morgan's "property" is illegitimate, accrued in part via aggression as an ally of the state).


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