About property rights and equality of peopleHere on the planet Earth we have real property (land), personal property (physical possessions belonging to a person), private property (property owned by legal persons or business entities), public property (state owned or publicly owned and available possessions) and intellectual property (exclusive rights over artistic creations, inventions, etc.), although the latter is not always as widely recognized or enforced. The benefits from property rights make people who have them unequal with people who do not have them.
Should be People made Equal?The Utopians dream for people equality since ancient times. Why people should be equal? Obviously we are not identical. What motivate us is what we do not have. To demonstrate the inequality of people is not the purpose of this article. Both communism and some kinds of socialism upheld the notion that private property is evil, because private property benefits one group of people over another, giving rise to domination through the use of property rights. The communist word for this is exploitation. The solution for exploitation was to take the state power, socialize all properties and destroy the unhappy formal owners, the bourgeoisie, and make all people equals. I call it a violent social revenge; they called it the dictatorship of the proletariat. So far the communist solution of exploitation problem was to make people equal in poverty.
Dictatorship of the ProletariatI was five years old in 1947 when after WWII, in the Russian occupied Romania. Than the communist dictatorship of the proletariat started. The people with properties or money in the bank were the enemy. I saw the first conversion of the money. The communist media said the king picture on the money did not mach with the new Republic symbols. The exchange was meant to make cash on hand worthless. The total amount exchanged was limited to one month living expenses. The people without jobs starved. Everybody has to work for small retribution that will never make rich people again. But it was a work around, that was to become a privileged person a Party member and a informer. We the kids played games with worthless coins for years after that. Now we remember that time and understand more. For you I wrote more article on www.winner4us.com I have quotes from Lenin to explain the transition to class less society. This one might work for socialists today: “The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.” You can have more about these quotes and ideas
on "Lenin" and "Leninism" articles
You do not need to spend a life in a socialist country to figure out what the Communism is. I did it for you.
Current BeliefsI found in the USA this definition: Property is any physical or intangible entity that is owned by a person or jointly by a group of persons. Depending on the nature of the property, an owner of property has the right to consume, sell, rent, mortgage, transfer, exchange or destroy their property, and/or to exclude others from doing these things. Would be good to keep the definition and the property law as they are now. That is why we have the separation of power built in the USA Constitution. Nobody will make changes overnight. I believe that people are equal in front of God only and everybody here wants to be more equal than others.
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