[lbo-talk] When is private property NOT?

B. docile_body at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 28 14:54:51 PDT 2005


Yeah, it's the distinction between property in the means of production/means of subsistence vs. personal effects.

A toothbrush on your countertop is quite different than a toothbrush someone uses at work to scrub chrome fittings -- the former is a personal effect, the latter is a (very small) part of the means of production. The social relation determines whether it's class [i.e. "bad"] property or not.

-B.

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Carroll Cox wrote:

"Even in an advanced socialist regime, it would not be common to 'take' one person's wardrobe for public purposes. The kind of property rights leftists (or most leftists) are concerned to challengeare rights to productive property, not rights to property in its original sense of pertaining to the person."



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