[a fool in paradise]

Does it have anything to do with the anarchist/communist/socialist slogan...

“All Property Is Theft.” - a slogan coined by French anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon in his 1840 book What is Property? Or, an Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government

Karl Marx, although initially favourable to Proudhon’s work, later criticised, among other things, the expression “property is theft” as self-refuting and unnecessarily confusing, writing that “since “theft” as a forcible violation of property presupposes the existence of property” and condemning Proudhon for entangling himself in “all sorts of fantasies, obscure even to himself, about true bourgeois property.”

[1rudeboy]

I was thinking, if the prof is a total commie-lib, the intention is to make the discussion about "fairness." In which case (if one chooses to go the conservative/libertarian route), the discussion should be steered toward the direction of coercion, i.e., if some outside authority starts setting prices then someone is being coerced. If someone is being coerced, then it (theoretically) is not "fair."

I'd imagine an outfit such as the Ayn Rand Institute would be a good resource for this sort of thing.