(January 27, 2014 at 8:16 pm)EgoRaptor Wrote:(January 27, 2014 at 8:12 pm)Gish Wrote: I've tried to explain to him that while free-market socialism is perfectly coherent, free-market communism isn't. Socialism is simply the abolition of the private ownership of capital. Communism is that plus wealth redistribution and social justice. Communism is the Atheism+ of socialism.Communism is nothing more than the abolition of private property. It is perfectly coherent.
Socialism is the workers owning the means of production. Socialism isn't necessarily opposed to private ownership of the means of production. Some socialists like Benjamin Tucker superted preserving private property & merely redistributing it among the workers.
Why would you want to abolish private property?
