• deafboy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I thought owning the means of production was the point, but requiring a consistent argument from a communist is like requiring a consistent argument from a communist.

    • SwampYankee@mander.xyz
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      1 year ago

      “Common ownership” as in the workers collectively own the means of production. You, individually, don’t get to own it, but a union of workers, a local collective, or the state might own it and decisions would be made, ostensibly, by the workers who make up those entities.

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        1 year ago

        or the state might own it

        In other words… the workers don’t own squat.

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      1 year ago

      An individual can’t own the means of production, it’s supposed to be “owned” by the people. I’m not a communist, but that argument never changed.