Full quote, from the manifesto:

You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society.

In one word, you reproach us with intending to do away with your property. Precisely so; that is just what we intend.

From the moment when labour can no longer be converted into capital, money, or rent, into a social power capable of being monopolised, i.e., from the moment when individual property can no longer be transformed into bourgeois property, into capital, from that moment, you say, individuality vanishes.

You must, therefore, confess that by “individual” you mean no other person than the bourgeois, than the middle-class owner of property. This person must, indeed, be swept out of the way, and made impossible.

Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society; all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labour of others by means of such appropriations.

  • @jucheguevara
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    102 years ago

    yep. false consciousness of the masses to think that their lives will be worse after the elites and oligarchs are overthrown. It’s a big club but we aren’t in it!

  • Free PalestineA
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    82 years ago

    Partially related, but shout out to the Anarchist in a party I was a part of who threw a fit when we told them the abolition of property included their grandfather’s farmstead.

    • @CriticalResist8A
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      112 years ago

      Anarchism is the ideology of the petite bourgeoisie. Accordingly, it promotes the liberation of the petite bourgeoisie.

      Marxism-leninism is the ideology of the proletariat. Accordingly, it promotes the liberation of the proletariat.