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Tongue-in-cheek answer: you'd be disappointed in my laptop. The keyboard has half missing keys, and it's an old Core 2 Duo with 4GB RAM. Residing in southern Fr
by southerntofu 5y ago
Tongue-in-cheek answer: you'd be disappointed in my laptop. The keyboard has half missing keys, and it's an old Core 2 Duo with 4GB RAM. Residing in southern France, it'd probably be cheaper and more eco-friendly to find such hardware in your area ;)
Serious answer: you're confusing private property with possession (usage-based property). Private property is the State-mandated religion (with which we're all brainwashed throughout school and on television) that says a piece of paper dictates who can or can't use a certain resource, and that the people who use it (eg. tenants) can't necessarily decide for it. Anarchism doesn't stand against personal possessions (everyone sleeping in dormitories is a McCarthyist strawman), on the contrary, it stands for the idea that the land belongs to whoever lives/works it. Your house is your house not because a piece of paper says so, but because you reside in it. A peasant's land is their land (whether individually or communally) not because a landlord said so, but because they work and care for it.
Another way to look at it, is that if you are not a direct user of a certain resource, then you have no say in how it should be used. Why do the State and big corporations get to decide on how our neighborhoods should be managed, or to extract certain resources and pollute our water streams? Such decisions should belong to the people directly, not to some remote entity claiming legitimate exercise of power over the people.