“In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.” “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.”
Chapter 2 of The Communist Manifesto
Chapter 2 of The Communist Manifesto
Chapter 2 of The Communist Manifesto
“In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.” “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.”