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> I understand a key part of communism is you and your family own nothing As I understand, a key part is coming to the realization you and your family have alr
by charlescearl 4y ago
> I understand a key part of communism is you and your family own nothing
As I understand, a key part is coming to the realization you and your family have already been robbed (or evicted to go back to your example), and then to ask what's next? At least as I understand Marx, particularly in Capital v. III, the point is to construct a world in which poor & working class regain collective control of resources like food, shelter, health that sustain life. The abolition of transfer of private property is intended to end the cycle of extracted (stolen) life-sustaining resources ending up in the hands of the same family (or dominant group).
As a case in point, the theft of Black farm land has been well documented https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-black-farmers-lost-326-bln-worth-land-20th-century-study-2022-05-02/ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-black-farmers-lost-326-b.... The point of communist organizing in Alabama during the 1930's -- detailed in Robin DG Kelley's "Hammer and Hoe" -- was to protect Black small farm owners from theft of their meager lands, and to take actions so that sharecroppers (tenant farm workers) could collectively control enough land to sustain themselves.