G.A. Cohen
- Capitalism, Freedom, and the Proletariat
In capitalist societies everyone owns something, be it only his own labor power, and each is free to sell what he owns, and to buy whatever the sale of what he owns enables him to buy. Many claims made on capitalism's behalf are questionable, but here is a freedom which it certainly provides.
G. A. Cohen
- Ownership Rights in Productive Forces
The economic structure of a society is the whole set of its production relations. Production relations are relations of effective power over persons and productive forces, not relations of legal ownership. But it is convenient to represent production relations as relations of ownership, and we now deepen our understanding of the economic structure by noting some features of the concept of ownership.
