insurrectionarycompassion:

Contrary to popular opinion your PlayStation is not private property. Private property does not refer to your personal possessions. It refers to the private ownership of land and resources by the wealthy. A factory is private property, a storefront is private property.

So when socialists criticize the institution of private property they aren’t saying you should let everyone use your shampoo. They’re criticizing an economic order which places the resources of the world into a few private hands which then use it to personally enrich themselves at the expense of everyone else. 10 people owning 50% of all the world’s wealth is the result of the private ownership of property.

Property and possessions are conflated. Living in a home you don’t own and don’t extract wealth from is also conflated with private property. I wonder why a mode of production which places wealth in ever increasingly fewer hands would want to conflate private property with personal possessions and living spaces? Hmmm…