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Single Idea 22536
[filed under theme 24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 9. Communism
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Full Idea
The land might be held separately, while the crops grown on it are brought into a communal store, …or the land might he held and farmed communally, while the crops are divided for private use, …or they could both be held communally.
Gist of Idea
There could be private land and public crops, or public land and private crops, or both public
Source
Aristotle (Politics [c.332 BCE], 1263a02)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Politics', ed/tr. Reeve,C.D.C. [Hackett 2017], p.26
A Reaction
Aristotle says that examples exist of both of the first two cases. I would go for public land and privately divided crops. Capitalists end up with private land and private crops.
The
36 ideas
with the same theme
[strong control to achieve equality and good lives]:
22536
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There could be private land and public crops, or public land and private crops, or both public
[Aristotle]
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22538
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Owning and sharing property communally increases disagreements
[Aristotle]
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19745
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The nature of people is decided by the government and politics of their society
[Rousseau]
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5273
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Young Hegelians think consciousness is chains for men, where old Hegelians think it the bond of society
[Marx/Engels]
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5282
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If the common interest imposes on the individual, his actions become alienated and enslaving
[Marx/Engels]
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5283
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In communist society we are not trapped in one activity, but can act freely
[Marx/Engels]
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5288
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The class controlling material production also controls mental production
[Marx/Engels]
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5290
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The revolutionary class is opposed to 'class', and represents all of society
[Marx/Engels]
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5294
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To assert themselves as individuals, the proletarians must overthrow the State
[Marx/Engels]
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5302
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Modern governments are just bourgeois management committees
[Marx/Engels]
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5304
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Communism aims to abolish not all property, but bourgeois property
[Marx/Engels]
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5307
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Many of the bourgeois rights grievances are a form of self-defence
[Marx/Engels]
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21995
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Must production determine superstructure, or could it be the other way round?
[Singer on Marx]
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20577
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Even decently paid workers still have their produce bought with money stolen from them
[Marx]
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21996
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Freedom only comes when labour is no longer necessary
[Marx]
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22000
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From each according to his ability, to each according to his need
[Marx]
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22969
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People who only have their labour power are the slaves of those permitting them to work
[Marx]
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22970
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Freedom is making the state subordinate to its society
[Marx]
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21989
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Man is dominated by money, which is the essence of his alienation
[Marx]
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23862
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By saying the material dialectic of history aspires to the best, Marx agreed with capitalism
[Weil on Marx]
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23875
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Marx says force is everything, and that the weak will become strong, while remaining the weak
[Weil on Marx]
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18653
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Marx rejected equal rights because they never actually treat people as equals
[Marx, by Kymlicka]
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21999
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False consciousness results from concealment by the superstructure
[Marx, by Singer]
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23054
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Communism is wrong because it restricts the freedom of individuals to contribute to the community
[Green,TH, by Muirhead]
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23047
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Original common ownership is securing private property, not denying it
[Green,TH, by Muirhead]
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23807
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The collective is the one and only object of false idolatry
[Weil]
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23749
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The problem of the collective is not suppression of persons, but persons erasing themselves
[Weil]
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21240
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The truth about events always comes from the oppressed and disadvantaged
[Sartre, by Bakewell]
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20445
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Levinas says Marxism is the replacement of individualist ethics, by solidarity and sociality
[Levinas, by Critchley]
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21993
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Materialist history says we are subject to incomprehensible forces
[Singer]
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21831
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Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it
[Flanagan]
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9303
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The concept of 'alienation' seems no longer applicable
[Svendsen]
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20099
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For communists history is driven by the proletariat
[Micklethwait/Wooldridge]
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22830
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Give by ability and receive by need, rather than a free labour market
[Charvet]
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23534
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Communism failed to unite western workers with the oppressed of the south
[Berardi]
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23135
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Classic Marxists see liberalism as the ideology of the bourgeoisie
[Gopnik]
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