Broadly speaking, you probably agree with the large majority of the views commonly attributed to whichever group you identify with - what are the exceptions? Something that if you mention without a caveat immediately makes people jump to conclusions or even attack you?
I don’t believe in the right to private property. This is completely non-discussable with family. I am very lucky to have friends more open to this sort of radicalism.
I also have some strong opinions about colonialism and reparations that don’t get most Americans, especially not white suburban Americans that I an surrounded with, very excited.
Where do you draw the line on what counts as property? Surely people can have some things that are theirs?
So a common misconception about property is that private property means personal property. This couldn’t be further from the truth. When leftists discuss private property we are referring specifically to property owned with the purpose of producing capital for the owner. This essentially means businesses. Your house is not private property it is personal property because you own it for personal use. This changes if you own 50 houses and extract rent from them. A hammer is personal property until you own hundreds of thousands of them and distribute them amongst laborers who use them to create economic value that you now “own”. Communists want you to own things, we just don’t want individuals or small groups to own production and have legal entitlement to the value of worker’s labor.
Interesting perspective I haven’t heard about before, thanks for sharing this food for thought!
I’m wondering if this can be extrapolated beyond physical things like the hammers and houses you mentioned. Would a rule of thumb like “one shouldn’t be able to appropriate more resources than one can personally make use of” fit with your point of view?
E.g.: nobody should earn 3 million a year (thinking of the mozilla ceo here specifically lol, but I’m sure it’s common among big businesses), not leaving the heater on if you’re not home because (in most cases) someone else could have used that electricity or gas, selling or donating non-sentimental things you’re surely not going to use it again so that someone else can get use/value out of it, etc. As ideals to strive for of course, not necessarily all hard-and-fast rules
When people talk about private property, they generally aren’t talking about personal property: your desk, your refrigerator, your home. They mean private ownership of eg. farms, factories, cyclotrons