When it comes to communicating communist ideas I feel like it'd be more effective if instead of saying "private property" we said "remote ownership" or "ownership on paper" or "economic property" or "corporate property" or "for-profit property"
Cuz like what we mean is "you can't own a house you don't live in" "you can't own a business others work in" "You can't own land others live or work on"
And I think in the 21st century "private property" just doesn't evoke that meaning
@shel What if we called it "rent-seeking" or "rent-collecting"?
When you own a house you don't live in or a business you don't work in, all you're doing is taking a cut of money that other people earned, right?
@starbreaker @shel Also: profit-seeking.
@christianbundy @shel True, but most people haven't learned to despise the notion of profits. Nobody likes paying rent to a fucking slumlord, though.
@shel @starbreaker I think I may be misunderstanding -- where is my rent going if not to the "owner"?
@christianbundy @starbreaker I think you're reading this backwards
I'm trying to figure out good ways to communicate the communist idea of "abolishing private property" that's more modern and doesn't require as much explaining
Someone suggested "rent collecting" but I'm saying like... even if I stopped collecting rent on your house (so you're not paying rent at all in this scenario) I could still "own" it under current law and like, evict you or something, so it's still my "private property"
@starbreaker @christianbundy i think this is a little narrow though
because even if i didn't collect rent if i still "own" your apartment you still only get to live there on my terms and that also needs to be abolished