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merc@sh.itjust.works 1 week agoNo, private property is things like a coat and shoes.
If someone owns an industrial lemon juicer, that’s part of the means of production, and must be collectively owned. Sorry Jenny, you can’t have a lemonade stand.
tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Alright buddy, whatever you say.
merc@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
You mean, whatever Marx says.
tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Well he was a key theoritician of communism, so partly, but also Engles, Lenin, Che, Ho Chi Minh, Castro, Fanon, Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, it’d be a shame if I only ever read one author when communism has been developed by multitudes of scientists, fighters, teachers and other thinkers for the last 150 years.
merc@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
And which of them thought that communism without capitalism allowed someone to run a for-profit business?