The question of property, and its political implications, has been central to the ideas of political philosophers and analysts since the time of the ancients. It is no less of an issue in this country today, though clouded subtlety in supposedly apolitical language, a consequence of the development of attitudes in developed capitalist society. The economic, moral, political and social aspects concerning property, and its concentration of ownership, have all been extensively explored by theorists, and while there exist obvious boundaries and strong conflicts of ideas, a general consensus exists that believes property is a defining and essential part of...
the views of the ideological opposition.

"...under this very Constitution wealth has been diffusing itself in a way unparalleled in any other country; that, whilst rich and poor have been gaining, the poor have gained the most; and that England, with her monarchical and aristoctratic instituions, allows her people a measure of freedom that is not tolerated for an instant in the lands of universal suffrage." W. H. Mallock, Property and Progress, Murray, 1884

"The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win." K. Marx, F. Engels, The Communist Manifesto, Penguin, 1985