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This paper offers an approach to the study of private property in contemporary China from the point of view of governmentality (Foucault). Based on a brief reconstruction of the main legal and political events that gave greater prominence to private property, the paper analyses some characteristics of this right within the framework of the Chinese Commu-nist Party's (CCP) art of government. The analysis shows, taking up the contributions of governmentality, that the recognition of private property not only responds to measures of economic liberalisation, but also to a government practice that seeks, by indirect means, to strengthen the State and the Party. The paper is organised in three parts. The first part reconstructs the main legal and political measures that led the CCP to legally recognise private property in 2007. The second part provides a brief analysis of private prop-erty and Chinese socialism, introducing Michel Foucault's genealogy of ne-oliberalism. The last part highlights the contributions of the notion of gov-ernmentality to the analysis of private property in contemporary China.

THIS PAPER SUGGESTS THAT PERCEPTIONS OF SOCIALISM AND CAPITALISM SHOULD BE CONSIDERED AS WORKING MODELS FOR TRANSFORMING SOCIETY TO SOCIAL JUSTICE, IT PERCEIVES CAPITALISM AS THE MONOPOLY OF CAPITAL, AND SOCIALISM AS PUBLIC SELF-GOVERNMENT, WITH PLURALISM OF COMPETING OWNERSHIP FORMS IF THIS IS ACCEPTED; THEN THE BUREAUCRATIC IDEOLOGIST'S WAY OF DEFINING PROPERTY AS "SOCIALIST" OR NON-SOCIALIST" ACCORDING TO DOGMATIC PRIMITIVISM WILL LOSE ANY MEANING. EVERYTHING THAT PROMOTES THE SOCIALIST IDEAL--SOCIAL JUSTICE--IS SOCIALIST; EVERYTHING THAT CONFLICTS WITH THAT IDEAL CANNOT BE SOCIALIST. AND THAT INCLUDES THE MONOPOLY OF PUBLIC OWNERSHIP.

War, therefore, is an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to fulfil our will.If our opponent is to be made to comply with our will, we must place him in a situation which is more oppressive to him than the sacrifice which we demand.As long as the enemy is not defeated he may defeat me; then I shall be no longer my own master; he will dictate the law to me as I did to him.—Clausewitz on War.