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Single Idea 23047
[filed under theme 24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 9. Communism
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Full Idea
Common ownership in early societies is not the denial of a man's private property in the products of his own labour, but the only way under the circumstances of securing it.
Gist of Idea
Original common ownership is securing private property, not denying it
Source
report of T.H. Green (Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation [1882], §218) by John H. Muirhead - The Service of the State III
Book Ref
Muirhead,John H.: 'The Service of the State: T.H. Green' [John Murray 2021], p.77
A Reaction
This is announced with some confidence, but it is very speculative. I think there is some truth in Locke's thought that putting work into a creation creates natural ownership. But who owns the raw materials? Why is work valued highly?
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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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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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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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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21999
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False consciousness results from concealment by the superstructure
[Marx, by Singer]
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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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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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