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I used to be strictly materialist and atheist. Now I’m pretty spiritual. Don’t necessarily follow a religion and don’t support bigotry but yeah, I’m fairly spiritual now. This is a recent development and I never thought I’d be here like 5 years ago.

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[-] NostraDavid@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

In Communism "property" gets split by function:

There is "personal property" - your clothes, toothbrush, phone, bike, house, car, etc.

"Private property" means any asset that produces something that can be used to extract profit. Think of factories, warehouses, rentals, mines, ships, servers, patents, etc.

"Common property" are things like community gardens, a public fishery (like a lake).

"Public/Social property" are usually state-owned, like public roads, the railway, the power grid (usually), etc.

"State property" also state-owned, but not publicly accessible, like the office buildings where government officials work.

“If you own a chair and sit on it, that is personal property. If you own a factory and other people work in it while you collect the profit, that is private property.”

My problem with these definitions is that my personal computer is also my private computer. I can use it to make money, but it's also deeply personal. Then again, Marx could not have anticipated this issue.

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thanks for the explanation. That makes sense.

My problem with these definitions is that my personal computer is also my private computer. [...]

This is something I've wondered about too. Maybe it should only apply to things that would be too expensive for a single person to own? If everyone can have their own, then it's personal property, even if you can make money from it.

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