This article begins with a study of the political economy of welfare capitalism to demonstrate how the private quest for profit was never going to be undermined by the advance of socio-economic rights. Contrary to the conventional view among human rights lawyers, capital draws power from its rights or welfarism. It is in recognizing the role that socio-economic rights play in serving capitalism that the field of international law concerned with structurally transformative human rights can begin to explore how socio-economic rights inhibit alternative forms of social organization. This work then turns to recovering property rights through a study of recent evictions and housing rights case law of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights that problematizes structural inequities and calls the financialized capitalist system into question. Next this work investigates radical legal positivism in international indigenous rights jurisprudence for how it transcends the private ownership of indigenous lands and control over the means of production. The social function of property rights is then revisited and extended, drawing to a close an article that unearths how socio-economic rights might yet emancipate people from capitalist property relations, alter the underlying structure of the economy, and, in time, sever its concordance with the capitalist welfare state.

本文首先对福利资本主义的政治经济学进行研究，以证明私人对利润的追求永远不会因社会经济权利的进步而受到削弱。与人权律师的传统观点相反，资本从其权利或福利主义中获取权力。正是在认识到社会经济权利在为资本主义服务中所发挥的作用时，关注结构性变革人权的国际法领域才能开始探索社会经济权利如何抑制替代形式的社会组织。然后，这项工作转向通过研究联合国经济、社会和文化权利委员会最近的驱逐和住房权判例法来恢复财产权，该判例法提出了结构性不平等问题，并对金融化的资本主义体系提出了质疑。接下来，这项工作调查了国际土著权利法理学中的激进法律实证主义，以了解它如何超越土著土地的私人所有权和对生产资料的控制。然后重新审视和扩展财产权的社会功能，为这篇文章画上句号，该文章揭示了社会经济权利如何将人们从资本主义财产关系中解放出来，改变经济的基本结构，并最终切断其一致性与资本主义福利国家。