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'''Private property''', not to be confused with [[individual property]] or [[personal property]], describes a labor relationship to the [[means of production]]. As a concept, private ownership of property can exist only in the specific context of a political system which defines how it exists and how it can be used.
'''Private property''', not to be confused with [[individual property]] or [[personal property]], describes a labor relationship to the [[means of production]]. As a concept, private ownership of property can exist only in the specific context of a political system which defines how it exists and how it can be used.


Under capitalism, a right to private property is not based on one’s own labor (as in one form of individual property) but appropriation of the products of the labor of others<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctt1w8h23p.19</ref>.
Under [[capitalism]], a right to private property is not based on one’s own labor (as in one form of individual property) but appropriation of the products of the labor of others.<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctt1w8h23p.19</ref>
 
== History ==
[[Bourgeoisie|Bourgeois]] private property developed at the end of [[feudalism]] when feudal and [[guild]] labor reached their limits. A new [[Social class|class]] of industrialists developed and gradually expropriated [[Peasantry|peasants]], guild members, and manufacturing workers, turning them into propertyless [[Proletariat|proletarians]].
 
At the end of [[capitalism]], the proletariat overthrows the bourgeoisie and abolishes private property as the [[productive forces]] grow.<ref>{{Citation|author=[[Friedrich Engels]]|year=1847|title=The Principles of Communism|mia=https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm}}</ref>


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Revision as of 16:30, 18 March 2023

Private property, not to be confused with individual property or personal property, describes a labor relationship to the means of production. As a concept, private ownership of property can exist only in the specific context of a political system which defines how it exists and how it can be used.

Under capitalism, a right to private property is not based on one’s own labor (as in one form of individual property) but appropriation of the products of the labor of others.[1]

History

Bourgeois private property developed at the end of feudalism when feudal and guild labor reached their limits. A new class of industrialists developed and gradually expropriated peasants, guild members, and manufacturing workers, turning them into propertyless proletarians.

At the end of capitalism, the proletariat overthrows the bourgeoisie and abolishes private property as the productive forces grow.[2]

References