As mentioned earlier Domenico Losurdo's Liberalism: A Counter- History is a pretty serious salvo against 17th-19th century liberalism and does indeed talk in great detail about how the veneration of individual property rights was used to oppose any state interference in owning, beating, selling, CW
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or killing the humans you own.
Good text, pretty formal in its format but some really great arguments.
As mentioned earlier Domenico Losurdo's Liberalism: A Counter- History is a pretty serious salvo against 17th-19th century liberalism and does indeed talk in great detail about how the veneration of individual property rights was used to oppose any state interference in owning, beating, selling, CW
spoilerremoved,
or killing the humans you own.
Good text, pretty formal in its format but some really great arguments.