• PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
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      I think “private property” isn’t well defined in socialist discourse and this idea of no private property gets a lot of backlash from some. A distinction between personal and private property needs to be made where one is used to generate capital in exchange for wages and the other is your dildo. The dildo is your personal property and no one is going to take it. A piece of land can be someones private property when they employ you and pay you a wage to work it - you get payed a pittance and they, without work, take the cream.

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mlOP
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        I think it’s generally well-understood amongst Socialists, the issue comes from those first learning about Socialism and thinking it is applied as dogmatism to the strictest degree, and isn’t a drawn out process of iterative improvement following revolution. For such people, they need to know if “going along with” Socialism means they can’t have a gaming PC or something, but the reality of Socialism is that it isn’t nearly as rigid or strict as it is stereotyped as.

      • Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net
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        A distinction between personal and private property needs to be made where one is used to generate capital in exchange for wages and the other is your dildo

        That’s always the definition. It is well defined, the problem is that there are national propaganda machines outright lying to the people.

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        Its well defined IMO, but anti-communist propaganda intentionally spreads the wrong definition of it to make communists look scary.

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        This is a reasonable explanation, similar to the ones I write on the spot when attempting to explain things. Made more difficult by the fact many signs barring entry to owned land say “private property” (or some variation on it, at least in France and the US)