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by inigyou 113 days ago
So like my apartment complex would have a power drill in the basement that anyone can borrow to drill holes in their walls and that means I'm a slave?
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No.

Communism distinguishes between private and personal property. Your power drill is personal property. Private property is used to generate profit, in other words, is "the means of production." Private property is communal, personal property is not.

As an aside, just once I wish I could see a criticism of communism on this forum made in good faith by someone who actually bothered to read a word of theory. Actual goddamn communists and socialists are more than capable of criticizing themselves, it's kind of what they do (and why they never get anywhere.) But capitalists can never come with anything deeper than "communism is slavery lol."

Yeah, ok, fine.

The bread book is easier to read than das kapital, and the manifesto is far too simple.

Communism != Communal.