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A commenter on FB: My hope is [for] libertarians to diagnose private property as an institution the same way they diagnose the state.
For some reason they oppose the institution of “the state” based on historical sociological analysis but cannot do the same with the institution of “private property”.

My reply: And the modern nation-state, the capitalist system, and the modern form of "private property" all had common origins in the same historical process. But right-libertarians act like the latter two were just some kind of spontaneous growth; and they can just remove "gummint," and capitalism and private property will persist in essentially the same form.