>But seriously, people like to justify property by making it some natural right.
But seriously, people like to justify life itself by making it some natural right. Obviously, if someone could better use the oxygen you breathe, by all means, we should take it from you and give it to him.
Property is survival. A human depends on secure access to calories, and the land we grow wheat upon is now our mechanism of survival. The transition to ordered society based around agriculture is permanent.
> we don't give animals property rights to their habitats
What? And so what are we citizens to our government? Animals lucky to be allowed to live? Government is a human social construct designed to govern humans, nothing more nothing less. Perhaps you're arguing we treat them like second-class citizens? Slaves even? Weird, considering "protected" endangered species may as well have "equal" rights to us humans.
So much for a government of, for, and by the people.
If property is theft, theft from whom? Your town? Your country?
How can one steal what isn't owned?
Oh, and it's Proudhon, not Marx.