Broadly speaking, you probably agree with the large majority of the views commonly attributed to whichever group you identify with - what are the exceptions? Something that if you mention without a caveat immediately makes people jump to conclusions or even attack you?

  • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.ml
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    I don’t believe in the right to private property. This is completely non-discussable with family. I am very lucky to have friends more open to this sort of radicalism.

    I also have some strong opinions about colonialism and reparations that don’t get most Americans, especially not white suburban Americans that I an surrounded with, very excited.

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      2 hours ago

      Where do you draw the line on what counts as property? Surely people can have some things that are theirs?

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        So a common conception about property is that private property means personal property. This couldn’t be further from the truth. When leftists discuss private property we are referring specifically to property owned with the purpose of producing capital for the owner. This essentially means businesses. Your house is not private property it is personal property because you own it for personal use. This changes if you own 50 houses and extract rent from them. A hammer is personal property until you own hundreds of thousands of them and distribute them amongst laborers who use them to create economic value that you now “own”. Communists want you to own things, we just don’t want individuals or small groups to own production and have legal entitlement to the value of worker’s labor.

      • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
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        When people talk about private property, they generally aren’t talking about personal property: your desk, your refrigerator, your home. They mean private ownership of eg. farms, factories, cyclotrons