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by jampekka 946 days ago
In the typical socialist divide of different kinds of property a sewing machine that you use yourself would not be considered privately owned capital (private property). In general "private property" are things that yield profits without the owner doing the work. If you rented out the sewing machine to somebody else to work for, the things get a bit blurrier. If you own a sweatshop with 100 sewing machines, it's clearly "private property".

The socialist terminology around the different forms of property is really bad and causes a lot of confusion.