CHRISTOPHER NOLAN’S BIOPIC OF OPpenheimer offered up a great shibboleth of online leftism. In the film, the titular character summarises the philosophy of Marx as “Ownership is theft and so on”. He’s corrected by his squeeze-to-be Jean Tatlock, who says “Property is theft”.
But as ever-online academics were quick to point out, this slogan was actually coined by Pierre Joseph Proudhon. Duh. But not a minor slip, it turns out. Marx, legendarily dismissive of his
