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=== ''Second Treatise'' ===
=== ''Second Treatise'' ===
 
Locke's ''Second Treatise'' states that [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|indigenous peoples in America]] did not have [[labour]], [[Private property|property]], or [[money]], and therefore had no right to their land. He equated natives with wild animals.<ref name=":0" />
==== Indigenous peoples ====
Locke's ''Second Treatise'' states that [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|indigenous peoples in America]] did not have [[labour]], [[Private property|property]], or [[money]], and therefore had no right to their land. He equated natives with wild animals.<ref name=":0" /> He supported the privatization of land and saw communal land as a relic of a [[Primitive communism|primitive]] state of nature.<ref name=":1">{{Citation|author=[[Domenico Losurdo]]|year=2011|title=Liberalism: A Counter-History|chapter=White Servants|page=78|publisher=Verso|isbn=9781844676934|lg=https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=5BB3406BC2E64972831A1C00D5D4BFE4|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacebhsj2yxuoudkhkjp6lzgr5jvgyhu76zxe4gw3d65gpg32a6nded4?filename=Domenico%20Losurdo%2C%20Gregory%20Elliott%20-%20Liberalism_%20A%20Counter-History-Verso%20%282011%29.pdf}}</ref>
 
==== Private property ====
Locke believed it was lawful to kill petty thieves and prioritized private property over life.<ref name=":1" />


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