What Is Karl Marx Private Property

Private property, when referred to by communists, only refers to private ownership of industry or the means of production; the things you own personally are not private property in this sense. Marx and Lenin would just call them personal belongings. Socialist economic systems seek to end private property by making the means of production collectively owned and democratically operated by the workers; the state protects the workers’ ownership of the means of production. For Marx, the important question is not private property, because private property is not what he hopes to expropriate from the bourgeoisie. Private property and exploitation is the main cause for class division and struggle. A Marxist/communist state is not (at least primarily) concerned with private property in the sense of someone's house or clothes or cars (i.e. personal property) but instead (a) the means of production and (b) capital. …show more content…
Marx sees the capitalist investment in such establishments as insufficient to justify the return on investment created by the workers who make them valuable. The bourgeoisie not only controlled means of production, but they also have control over the people and property. Marx states, “The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation." The proletariats are stripped of their titles, and aren’t given true accreditation for their work. Everything ties back to money with the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie enforce wage labors, and exploit the proletariats. According to Marx, “But does wage-labour create any property for the labourer? Not a bit. It creates capital, i.e., that kind of property which exploits wage-labour”. The more the proletariats worked for the bourgeoisie the more products they were producing profit for the bourgeoisie, not for