ABSTRACT
The general point is that incursions against private property which reduce owners' freedom and transfer rights over resources to non-owners thereby increase the latter's freedom. The net effect on freedom of the resource transfer is, therefore, in advance of further information and argument, a moot point. Bourgeois thinkers celebrate the freedom of contract manifest not only in the capitalist's purchase of labour power but in the worker's sale of it. If Marxists are right, then workers, being forced to sell their labour power, are, in an important way, unfree. But it must remain true that they are free to sell their labour power. The present point is that although, in a collective sense, workers are forced to sell their labour power, scarcely any particular proletarian is forced to sell himself even to some capitalist or other.
