Spencer Heath Archive

Item 811

Note by Spencer MacCallum following a conversation with Heath, uncertain how much it reflects his own thought or that of Heath

February 10, 1956

/It begins to look as though primitive property was administrative, and not exclusive. That is why the Anglo-Saxon word “own” meant “to owe.” And the idea of property as being exclusive of others was a corruption of the original significance by the Roman, the slave-state ideology. The farther back you go the more administrative property becomes./