Nicolás Gómez Dávila
From: “Notas”, 2003, Villegas, P. 114-115.
The property of the means of production is the one and only guarantee of freedom. We can say, even excessively: he who has no land, has no freedom.
Property, however, direct and not indirect; property that the owner manages and not only possesses by means of a juridical fiction; property that his hands touch and of which his will may dispose of. Every collective wealth is, therefore, an ineffective basis and a nugatory support for the individual liberty, since it is not properly the wealth what frees oneself but its appropriation.
The real owner is not he who transitorily uses or abuses, but he who regulates, limits, determines, and gives the abuse and the use. Thus, if to an omnipotent legislative that is able to change constantly the customary rights we add the collectivization of the property, the collectivity alone or its shamefaced lords are free, while the individual finds himself supremely subjugated and oppressed.
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