But this fight has also been successful because negative rights (i.e., property rights, freedom of association, etc.) Yet, for over a century, positive rights have won out at the expense of negative rights, precisely because of the lack of respect and recognition for property rights. The fight for property rights must therefore be as principled a fight as the pernicious one fought successfully for over a century by statists and socialists for the establishment of positive “rights.” The second fight for property rights is political: it is the fight against state coercion—its systematic aggression against private property and its lack of sufficiently defined property rights. In other words, the first fight for property rights in which the state plays a starring role in ineffectually prosecuting private criminals, eclipses the second fight for property rights, which is the fight against the power of the state itself.