[alfiedotwtf]

> a quick read of any Communist literature (yes, even the Manifesto) would correct this notion.

You must have missed it. And by it, I mean the whole document. Here's an extract from one of the dialogs:

> Question 3: How do you wish to achieve this aim? > Answer: By the elimination of private property and its replacement by community of property

More extracts:

> What will this new social order have to be like > ... Private 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.

And more:

> Finally, when all capital, all production, all exchange have been brought together in the hands of the nation, private property will disappear of its own accord, money will become superfluous, and production will so expand and man so change that society will be able to slough off whatever of its old economic habits may remain > > ... > > What will be the consequences of the ultimate disappearance of private property? > > ...

Karl Marx studied Property Law and his pamphlets before and after the Communist Manifesto were all about abolishing the personal ownership of property!

[La1n]

Private property isn't "anything you can own" here, it has a very specific meaning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_property#Personal_ver...

[alfiedotwtf]

Thanks for that... I didn't know there was a difference under Marx.

So one thing Marx did say is that he wanted money to be "superfluous". If money would be useless, how do you get to own a toothbrush? Does that mean we either go back to a barter economy, or something like a social points system like Seasame Credit?