What Mary Wollstonecraft thinks about capitalism

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English moral and political philosopher (1759 to 1797); author of A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792).

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1. 18 Dec 1790

   Our readingThe only rightful security of property is the right to enjoy and bequeath what one's own talents and industry acquired

   Their wordsThe only security of property that nature authorizes and reason sanctions is, the right a man has to enjoy the acquisitions which his talents and industry have acquired; and to bequeath them to whom he chooses.

   ↗A Vindication of the Rights of Men (2nd ed., 1790)en.wikisource.org All 5 from this book