The right to property means the right to earn income or profits from land, shops, factories or other means of production. It implies the right tounhampered use of one’s income and wealth, land and goods, the right to destroy or sell them, or alienate them, the right to exchange them and the right to bequeath them. In modem times, this right has been subjected to much criticism. Communists and to a lesser extent many types of socialists have opposed it.<\/p>