> The claim that Marx and Engels 'spent their lives undermining' individual rights does not come with any evidence. From http://faculty.washington.edu/wtalbott

> The claim that Marx and Engels 'spent their lives undermining' individual rights does not come with any evidence. From http://faculty.washington.edu/wtalbott/phil332/trmarxII.htm http://faculty.washington.edu/wtalbott/phil332/trmarxII.htm "Note how much the early Marx is influenced by Hegel: (1) Individualism is a problem to be overcome. (2) Emancipation is the goal, but of a species-being not as an individual. Freedom is identified with the universal (844)." "Private property "is the product of alienated labor, and ... it is the means by which labor alienates itself, the realization of this alienation."" The right to private property is an individual right. If someone is totally deprived of the right to their property, they can't survive: take away someone's food, clothes, home, bed, etc., and they're dead before long. This happened millions of times in the Soviet Union and in China, among other places. You really can't go on pretending that Marx had nothing to do with it!