basic leftist political/economic concept (179 words)
Just had a lucky-ten-thousand ( https://m.xkcd.com/1053/ ) moment: apparently there's a distinction in leftist political and economic thinking between /personal/ property and /private/ property
copying from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_property#Personal_versus_private_property
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- Personal property or possessions includes "items intended for personal use" (e.g., one's toothbrush, clothes, homes, and vehicles, and sometimes money). It must be gained in a socially fair manner, and the owner has a distributive right to exclude others.
- Private property is a social relationship between the owner and persons deprived, i.e. not a relationship between person and thing. Private property may include artifacts, factories, mines, dams, infrastructure, natural vegetation, mountains, deserts and seas -- these generate capital for the owner without the owner having to perform any labour. Conversely, those who perform labour using somebody else's private property are deprived of the value of their work, and are instead given a salary that is disjointed from the value generated by the worker. Marxists consider it to be unfair that mere ownership of something should grant an individual free money and power over others.
