Under communism, what stuff would you own?

I have this fear that communism might be wasted if we continue to own mass-produced items simply through tradition or anti-social mindsets/egoism.

I'm pretty fond of everything I own and I plan on keeping it all.

Even if you have to work twice as many hours to buy stuff than you would if it was common property?

A simple thing to understand is: what will be abolished in communism is the private property of the means of production (just to use this to-much-repeated terms), and not personal belongings...

You could even put a house or a appartement as personal belongings, since everyone have the right to have a home (of course this is a lot more complex, but I'll not make a thesis here).

So... this question is stange, at least.

condor wrote:   Apart from a toothbrush, towel and laptop, there's not much else I want to own.

GKR wrote: A simple thing to understand is: what will be abolished in communism is the private property of the means of production (just to use this to-much-repeated terms), and not personal belongings... You could even put a house or a appartement as personal belongings, since everyone have the right to have a home (of course this is a lot more complex, but I'll not make a thesis here). So... this question is stange, at least.

Everyone works according to their ability, and takes the goods in an amount that really needs; money does not exist anymore. Scientific and technological level is at the top and evenly distributed at the planet, manufactures belong to the whole community (<this detail was already achieved in former Yugoslavia, for the first time in the history of mankind), while wars are extinct; the wars are rejected by mankind as a product of outdated political, bourgeois, nationalist , religious, imperial and other reasons which are all extinct. This would be way of living on the planet Earth in Star Trek, although in the series it is not called *communism* for obvious reasons, and according to Marx's books

There will be civil war before there is fullblown communism in the west, and the limp-wristed leftists who larp about that kind of thing would be the first ones up against the wall - "from each according to their ability" still requires you to actually have ability.

TeleStrat wrote: I'm pretty fond of everything I own and I plan on keeping it all.

Agreed

You can have all the s#!t I've acquired over my lifetime when you pry it from my cold dead hands. Actually, you can't even have it then, I'm going to leave it all to my son. Take that you commie b@st@rds!!


Edited by JD - October 13 2015 at 16:27

The last I checked, your grave is pretty much yours.