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Showing Original Post only (View all)Under Socialism, you get to keep your stuff. [View all]
Since this keeps coming up in other places, I thought I would post this relevant bit from the Manifesto here:
In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
We Communists have been reproached with the desire of abolishing the right of personally acquiring property as the fruit of a mans own labour, which property is alleged to be the groundwork of all personal freedom, activity and independence.
Hard-won, self-acquired, self-earned property! Do you mean the property of petty artisan and of the small peasant, a form of property that preceded the bourgeois form? There is no need to abolish that; the development of industry has to a great extent already destroyed it, and is still destroying it daily.
Or do you mean the modern bourgeois private property?
Unless you own a mine, railroad, corporate mega-farm, or other monopoly of "commanding heights" of public resources that would probably be better off nationalized in the commons, you get to keep your stuff. This nonsense about the shoemaker, baker and candlestick maker having their little bit of earth appropriated is nonsense that has been smeared around for 150 years. The people who spread that kind of propaganda are usually billionaires like Pere Koch. <---link to actual Koch smears of Communism.
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I hear it from students too, so it's getting taught this way on purpose.
Starry Messenger
May 2012
#6
I think some folks on RevLeft just went through Marx with a hilighter pen
Starry Messenger
May 2012
#14
When I was still a Catholic, there social-justice teachings was what drew me to them.
white_wolf
May 2012
#15
Good thread. I suspect that when people think "property" they are thinking about homes and small
jwirr
May 2012
#9
Even the family farms in states like Iowa are huge and run like factory farms. Here in Minnesota
jwirr
May 2012
#13
There is a huge distinction between personal property and private property in Marxism
Taverner
May 2012
#17