It's weird that people think slavery built the modern world. The Soviet Union collapsed because of slavery. N Korea is poor because of slavery. Cuba is poor because of slavery. Venezuela is poor because of slavery. 50mil starved in Mao's China because of slavery. The success of the Western world is a result of property rights & free trade. The collapse of the West is coming because those things are being destroyed. Reality is crystal clear when you have enough sense to know what you're looking at.

"You will own nothing..." means they want you to be a slave.

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๐Ÿ˜‚ ...but nah

If nobody owns anything it means someone must own everything.

If nobody owns everything, nobody will take care of anything either.

It's really just common sense but it was killed of in 2019

It's projection. The organizations putting the idea out there are actually dreaming of what they could do with tremendous slave power.

If you think power is control over people and therefore zero-sum, any accomplishment is automatically the result of some exploitation

If you think power is control over nature (and only marginally control over people), cooperation becomes possible

Marx shared the labor theory of value with classical economists, which presumes a single scale of value for everything. This makes exchanges more for less (exploitative) or equal for equal (pointless) rather than A for B where both parties might benefit. As the left evolved from economic Marxism to cultural, racial, sex (etc.) Marxism, failure to explain economic cooperation became failure to explain any sort of social cohesion as anything other than dictatorial hierarchy.

Exactly!