on of man with man, but rather on the separation of man
from man. It is the right to this separation, the right of the
individual limited to himself.

The practical application of the right of man to freedom is the right
of man to private property.

In what consists the right of man to private property?

_Article 16 (Const. of 1793): The right to property is the right of
every citizen to enjoy and dispose of as he likes his goods, his
income, the fruit of his toil and of his industry._

The right of man to private property is therefore the right to enjoy
and dispose of his property, at his will and pleasure, without regard
for others, and independently of society: the right of self-interest.
Each particular individual freedom exercised in this way forms the
basis of bourgeois society. It leaves every man to find in other men
not the realization, but rather the limits of his freedom. But it
proclaims above all the right of man to enjoy and dispose of his
property, his income, and the fruit of his toil and his industry
according to his pleasure.

There still remain the other rights of man, equality and security.

Equality here in its non-political significance is nothing but the
equality of the above described liberty, viz.: every individual is
regarded as a uniform atom resting on its own bottom. Article 5 of the
_Constitution of 1793_ states: _Equality consists in the fact that the
law is the same for all, whether it protects or whether it punishes._

And security? _Article 8 of the Constitution of 1793_: _Security
consists in the protection accorded by society to each of its members
for the preservation of his person, his rights, and his property._

Security is the supreme social conception of bourgeois society, the
conception of the police, the idea that society as a whole only exists
to guarantee to each of its members the maintenance of his person,
his rights, and his property.

By the conception of security bourgeois society does not raise itself
above its egoism. Security is rather the confirmation of its egoism.

None of the so-called rights of man, therefore, goes beyond the
egoistic individual, beyond the individual as a member of bourgeois
society, withdrawn into his private interests and separated from the
community. Far from regarding the individual as a generic being, the
generic life, Society itself, rather appears as an external frame for
the individual, as a limitation of his original independ