Editing Public property (section)

== In Marxism ==
[[Karl Marx]] described private property as a fundamental social relation of bourgeois society, where it is used for appropriation of labor by capitalists. Marx considered that public property will replace the private property, as a natural historical change of a property relationship.
<blockquote>All property relations in the past have continually been subject to historical change consequent upon the change in historical conditions.

The French Revolution, for example, abolished feudal property in favour of bourgeois property.

The distinguishing feature of Communism is not the abolition of property generally, but the abolition of bourgeois property. But modern bourgeois private property is the final and most complete expression of the system of producing and appropriating products, that is based on class antagonisms, on the exploitation of the many by the few.

In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.

– Marx & Engels: Library: 1848: ''[[The Communist Manifesto]]'': Chapter 2<ref>{{Cite web|title=Communist Manifesto (Chapter 2)|url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch02.htm|access-date=2020-12-19|website=www.marxists.org}}</ref></blockquote>

Generally, in Marxism, private property is understood as property that is used by bourgeoisie to increase [[Capital (economics)|capital]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Glossary of Terms: Pu|url=https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/p/u.htm#:~:text=In%20the%20Communist%20Manifesto,%20Marx,part%20of%20the%20social%20revolution.&text=That%20which%20cannot%20be%20taken,as%20property,%20public%20or%20otherwise.|access-date=2020-12-19|website=www.marxists.org}}</ref>