ABSTRACT
The philosophy of John Locke is most well-known for its concept of property, and the doctrine that property derives from labor. According to Locke, the fruits of labor are a manifestation of the human body extending itself into the world. The charge of racism attacks the very basis of Locke's argument as Locke's reasoning is designed to be both universalist and rest on a sustainable idea of generalizable humankind. For Locke, man in the state of nature has two essential ways of extending himself into the world. He does this first through the transformation of common resources into private property. Property and innocence, labor and representation, are intimately linked in Locke. William Blackstone enabled this extravagant entity in pirate law in the mid-eighteenth century, when he wrote the influential and enduring definition of the pirate as hostis humani generis or the enemy of all humankind.
