The principle that the ability to speak, publish, and participate in intellectual discourse is a property right that determines who holds power in society.
Sor Juana's censorship—silencing her public intellectual voice—was an act of property confiscation as much as any seizure of goods. Control over discourse determines who can shape truth, law, and collective belief. In libertarian justice, the right to speak, publish, and debate is recognized as property because it determines your ability to defend all other property and freedoms. Those denied voice cannot advocate for their rights, cannot expose injustice, cannot participate in the intellectual commons. Sor Juana fought for her right to publish, to be heard, to contest official doctrine—recognizing that without this property right, other freedoms become hollow. Applied today, this framework opposes censorship, monopolies on publishing platforms, and institutional suppression of dissenting voices as violations of fundamental property rights. Libertarian justice requires protecting discourse freedom as foundational: without it, no other property right can be secured or maintained.
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