Karl Marx — "Private property has made us so stupid and partial that an object is only ours w…"

Private property has made us so stupid and partial that an object is only ours when we have it – when it exists for us as capital, or when it is directly possessed, eaten, drunk, worn, inhabited, etc., – in short, when it is used by us. In the place of all physical and mental senses there has therefore come the sheer estrangement of all these senses, the sense of having.
Karl Marx — Karl Marx Modern · Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital

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From 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844', critiquing private property and alienation.

Date: 1844

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