Private property that isn’t personal is someone elses property
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100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 1 week agoPrivate property must, therefore, be abolished and in its place must come the common utilization of all instruments of production and the distribution of all products according to common agreement – in a word, what is called the communal ownership of goods. (Friedrich Engels, Principles of Communism, 1847)
Communists ain’t taking away my beaten up electric bass and my microwave oven
untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 week ago
One of my friends described it as there’s difference between private property and personal property. Your toothbrush is personal property. No one cares about that. Your factory where you assemble widgets is private property, where you’re paying people to convert labor into stuff you can sell.
I should read more left-wing theory. It made sense when he explained it.
RedFrank24@lemmy.world 1 week ago
How does that apply to things like computers? My personal PC can also double up as a server from which I run my applications that I sell to people. The PC is the means of production, and it is mine.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 week ago
I’m not sure!
I’d guess maybe the code would be open source, or at least freely shared among everyone who works on it. Then anyone can use their personal computer for the code, like anyone could use their personal guitar to play a song you wrote.
The computer can then remain personal, and the code itself is treated like the means of production that is collectively owned