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Socio-economic system in which private property rights are eliminated
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Articles
Karl Marx and the Close of His System, by Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, 1896
Least We Forget, by Paul Craig Roberts, 25 Feb 2006
Related Topic: George W. Bush
"Stalin had turned the unaccountable power that Lenin had embodied in the Communist Party against the party itself. ... Stalin ... made violence the mediator between the Party and its members. Consequently, no one was safe. The situation was intolerable for all, and Nikita Krushchev brought it to an end."
The Death Wish of the Anarcho-Communists, by Murray N. Rothbard, The Libertarian Forum, 1 Jan 1970
Related Topics: Achievement, Economists, Private Property, Spain, The State
"The only good thing that one might say about anarcho-communism is that, in contrast to Stalinism, its form of communism would, supposedly, be voluntary. Presumably, no one would be forced to join the communes, and those who would continue to live individually, and to engage in market activities, would remain unmolested. Or would they?"
The New Communism, by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., Mises.org Daily Article, 13 Aug 2001
"From 1916 through 1918, the Bolsheviks engaged in active protest against the Russian war on Germany. They were the party with one unnegotiable demand: peace. The Communists were wrong on everything but that one issue, yet it was the most important to the general Russian population."
Boxer's Confusion about Ownership, by Tibor R. Machan, 4 May 2007
Related Topics: Property Rights, John Locke
Explains the absurdity of California Senator Barbara Boxer's statement that public lands are "owned ... by the American people"
"The idea of collective ownership, by the way, is totally anti-American. It belongs within the political-economic framework of socialism in which, as Karl Marx and Frederick Engels made clear in their book, The Communist Manifesto, the right to private property must be abolished. In its place the incoherent idea of public or collective ownership is introduced ..."
Books
Communism: A History
    by Richard Pipes, 2001
Exploitation Theory of Socialism-Communism: The Idea That All Unearned Income (Rent, Interest and Profit) Involves Economic Injustice)
    by Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, 1975
Extract from Volume I, Chapter XII, of Capital and Interest
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression
    by Stephane Courtois, Mark Kramer, Jonathan Murphy et al., 1999
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