In The Science of Society, he says that Protestantism, democracy and socialism are "three partial announcements of one generic principle" which is "the sovereignty of the individual".
According to Gerald Cohen, "the libertarian principle of self-ownership says that each person enjoys, over herself and her powers, full and exclusive rights of control and use, and therefore owes no service or product to anyone else that she has not contracted to supply".
The main thing is that the individual's contribution to the collective entity's wealth is not requited in the shape of wages determined by the market.Other scholars are critical of the idea of private property, specifically within anarchism.
The anarchist Oscar Wilde said: For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.
[13][14] It is a negatively connoted term used to draw an analogy between slavery and wage labor by focusing on similarities between owning and renting a person.
The term "wage slavery" has been used to criticize economic exploitation and social stratification, with the former seen primarily as unequal bargaining power between labor and capital (particularly when workers are paid comparatively low wages, e.g. in sweatshops)[15] and the latter as a lack of workers' self-management, fulfilling job choices and leisure in an economy.
[16][17][18] With the advent of the Industrial Revolution, thinkers such as Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and Karl Marx elaborated the comparison between wage labor and slavery in the context of a critique of societal property not intended for active personal use[19][20] while Luddites emphasized the dehumanization brought about by machines.
[21] Within left-libertarianism, scholars such as Hillel Steiner,[22] Peter Vallentyne,[23] Philippe Van Parijs,[24] Michael Otsuka[25] and David Ellerman[26][27] root an economic egalitarianism in the classical liberal concepts of self-ownership and land appropriation, combined with geoist or physiocratic views regarding the ownership of land and natural resources (e.g. those of John Locke and Henry George).
[28] Some left-libertarians of the Steiner–Vallentyne type support some form of income redistribution on the grounds of a claim by each individual to be entitled to an equal share of natural resources.