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In reply to the discussion: Activists poured concrete all over some "anti-homeless spikes" this morning [View all]socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)of property rights in different areas and I appreciate your experience in the matter. But as a Marxist, my concern is not about HOW those property rights are enforced, but about the fact that they are there at all. The fact is that the east coast LEOs, by LAW, could have been just as harsh as the west coast ones were. That's the problem in my view.
As I've said before, I not a big believer in "private" property and I make a distinction (as Marx did) between "private" property, especially ownership of the means of production and livelihood, and personal property like your shirt or a stick of deodorant. Ownership of the means of production and livelihood should be in the hands of the workers themselves and NOT some owner whose only job is to make as much money as he/she can off of your labor. No matter how bad it is or gets for you, the owner doesn't give a rat's ass as long as his bottom line is padded as much as possible. And that's not because said owner is "greedy". It's because that's the way the system is set up. Those are the rules of capitalism and "private" property.
BTW, thanks for your personal, real life, experiential contribution to this thread. I'm curious. Why do you think it is that the eastern LEOs are more lenient than the west coast ones?