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19th Century Philosophers: Marx
d. These measures are designed to end the alienation and exploitation of workers most especially through the abolition of bourgeois private property, that is, the “kind of property which exploits wage-labor, and which cannot increase.” (CM) Marx wants to insure that private property does not remain the instrument of oppression of the capitalistic class. He does not, however opposes the possession of all personal property. He writes,
Communism deprives no man of power to appropriate the products of society; all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labor of others by means of such appropriation. (CM)