Critical race theories build on this premise of property as a social construct, by asserting that racial identity is essential to the definition and regulation of property rights.
In Whiteness as Property, Professor Harris posited that racial identity and property are deeply interrelated concepts, and examined how whiteness, initially constructed as a form of racial identity, evolved into a form of property, historically and presently acknowledged and protected in American law.
In denying that property rights are natural rights Reich argued that property rights are rights to valuable things in society, and therefore since social security rights and other forms of government largesse are a valuable source of wealth these rights therefore constitute property.
David Gordon has demolished such arguments by pointing out that it is not simply the case that any socially-constructed right which people value is a property right: "[I]t does not follow that if Social Security has the same value, or the same function, as property, then it is property.
Natural-rights libertarianism defines property rights as rights rooted in the concept of self-ownership, and thus rejects such socially or racially theories of property not only for being illogical and wrong, but also for being incompatible with liberty and justice.
Critical race theories argue that redistributing wealth between racial groups does not threaten property rights but is instead merely a way of reconceptualizing property rights.
Without property rights not only is economic prosperity impeded, but peaceful coexistence is impossible in societies where anybody can seize anybody else's property at will simply because they have "Redefined" property law to legalize such action.
https://mises.org/mises-wire/private-property-simply-racial-or-social-construct
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