Class interest (n.) is personal interest that has grown, against the will of individuals, into a common interest with an independent existence — then mistaken for an ideal, even holy, general interest.
Class interest (n.) overshoots its real limits in imagination when it first comes on the scene, passing itself off as the interest of humanity — and this illusion sets the tone of each historical epoch.
General interest (n.) is constantly produced by private persons out of private interest, and has no independent history — so the contradiction between them is destroyed and reproduced in practice every day.
General interest (n.) is the illusory form of communal life: every class bidding for mastery must first seize political power to present its own interest as everyone's.
National interest (n.) is defined by power centres behind closed doors; "we will sign only what serves it" means "we'll do as we choose."
National interest (n.) is largely a delusion: inside any nation, interests clash sharply, so the real question is always where power lies.
The National interest (n.) usually means the interest of state power, which seldom matches that of the people who live under it.
National interest (n.) is a technical term for the special interests of whatever domestic sectors are positioned to set policy.
Property (n.) limits disruption and guards against death, yet absolute property is another name for death.
Property (n.) turned into the abstract word 'property' spares one the trouble of knowing anything about actual property.
The Property (n.) of man is not a property of man at all: it is the very dislocation of the proper.
Property (n.) is a hidden theory of individuation: the owner thinks a plank is itself because it came from his own tree.