## My argument against communism / collectivism and the collective ownership myth.
The attractiveness of the ideas of collectivism rests largely upon the logical fallacy of confusing the logical quantifiers of some vs all, whatever the name of that fallacy is (someone please help me because I'm too lazy to look it up lol). Send this argument to anyone who is open minded, able to comprehend logic, and needs to understand why collectivism is evil, or who is looking for good rebuttals to collectivist dogma. Works against fascists and national socialists too.
Ownership means total subjugation and control of a resource. Your property is that which you can control entirely and exclusively. You can include others, but you are able to exclude them. You are also unable to exclude people of ALL of such an item that exist in the world, unless you happen to own all of them and no one else is able to get more (one example is your body: you own all of your body and no one can replicate that; you do not own all of the coconuts in existence, other people own some of them). You need to have this kind of property right over your body, which I hope is clear to even communists (and the ones that deny this will not usually openly admit that they do). You also need this for things like your food that you have purchased or received, in order to eat it and maintain your body. There are a number of reasons you need exclusive control of things. These are by definition your property.
Communism purports to make all capital (all stuff used for making stuff) the property simultaneously of you and everyone else. But this is a contradiction. Total control of a resource by you necessarily excludes at least some of the control that other people can have over it. So what communism necessarily does is to confuse people about who is actually in control, as we can see by the definition of ownership and how their entire philosophy rests on a contradiction. To confuse people over who, rightfully or in actuality, owns what, is to invite feuds over the use of the resource, while the actual owner, if one exists (the one that maintains more or less exclusive control over the capital), is the only holder of this wealth. Thus communism necessarily leads to tyranny by at least one economic actor, as its ideology is the chief tool of usurpation, chiefly by those entrusted with guardianship over a resource and those positioned to benefit from a transfer of wealth and privileges. The rest of the activity in this society of "collective ownership," the actions of fighting for control of resources that are not owned by them but are nonetheless partially entitled to them via rations, handouts, state or "community" run services, etc., contributes to consumption and reduction in the capital, even in addition to the newfound misallocation of capital at the hands of the tyrant. The society destroys wealth instead of making wealth more accessible for all.
Communism, in short, maximizes the tragedy of the commons to its ultimate destructive potential, because it obscures all ownership and protection into a free-for-all grab with no guidance, information, or effective protection, to direct resource allocation or productive activities. It becomes impossible to match resources to needs, or to create or preserve the resources in the first place. Those who govern the society and call themselves "The People" get to boss around not only this capital, but the people themselves, and this corporation which calls itself "The People" effectively owns the people. This last statement is the logical conclusion of all collectivism, by definition, as well as in practice.
In fact, with all this subjugation, ownership of one's body is often explicitly relinquished as well, as it naturally follows from the twisted ideology of collectivism, the body being private property after all, and it is the tyrant or the psychopath's desire to steal or control as much of other's things as he can. Rape becomes very, very prevalent in practice in communist or socialist experiments, though you can see without ever looking at the history that it is implied that if no one has an exclusive right to control her body, then anyone may violate it at any time. The collectivist lie has been used time and again to exploit people for millenia. Communism is nonstop gang rape. Democracy is gang rape with rapists changing hands every 2 years. "The People" of the United States, as is in reality embodied by our "representatives" and "agents" and those that do dealings with them, is just an aggressive corporation engaged in this exact activity, just on a smaller scale compared to the economy it parasitizes, such as to allow space for economic growth sufficient to quell revolutions and attract more unearned tax receipts and treasury bond investments.
Read #LysanderSpooner and #MurrayRothbard for more. Think free. Peace.
