Reading a Doctorow article like this, I get the sense that he thinks it would be a swell idea to force everyone by law to surrender all private property to the

Reading a Doctorow article like this, I get the sense that he thinks it would be a swell idea to force everyone by law to surrender all private property to the benevolent care of the state. His use of the word “comrade” does nothing to alleviate this impression, either.