Like obviously personal property can include hygiene products, firearms, or electronic devices. However I've seen some Marxists say that houses can be considered personal property so long as the land they're built on is owned publicly. Is this a valid perspective or are these champagne socialists clinging to their liberalism?

  • Owl [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    You can own the thing you live in. If you live in a multi-unit building, you can personally own your unit and communally own the building with everyone else who lives there.

    A hotel probably isn't anyone's personal property, and should belong to either a hospitality workers' coop or the government. Long stay hotels exist though, and a lot of homeless people are stuck permanently living in those, which is rent and bad, would still be rent and bad even if the landlords made their beds every day. The boundary is somewhere in there.