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fairly possess more land than he himself can use the product of" (698). Locke places high value on property. He says that human beings are born with a natural right to preserve their own property, that is, their life, liberty, and estate. He also says that the preservation of property is the number one reason people enter into a civil society. A civil society is there to protect the natural rights of humans, which is the preservation of their private property (707). According to Marx, "bourgeois private property is the final and most complete expression of the system of producing and appropriating products, that is based on clhi antagonisms, on the exploitation of the few by the many" ("Manifesto of the Communist Party" 1118). He says that the validity of privateproperty is presupposed in a capitalist economy. However, a capitalist economy actuallysplits human beings into two clhies: the bourgeoisie, or the proprietors, and the proletariat, or the wage-laborers. Marx also says bourgeois private property is created because of the alienation of the wage-laborers. He says that one way that the wage-laborers are alienated is from their product of their labor, since the products that the wage-laborer is producing do not belong to him or her. Also, they are alienated from the act of production because, in a capitalist economy, people partake in obligatory, forced labor, and therefore do not see themselves in their work. they do not hil connected to their work, and are not able to create hily as humans should be able to. Additionally, wage-laborers become alienated from the species being. According to Marx, the characteristic trait of human beings is willing creative activity or production. The alienated labor of a capitalist society prevents people from fully using their human function, and thus from being fully human. Finally, Marx says that wage-laborers become alienated from other human beings since they have to compete for the highest wages, which naturally divides them; and since the labor of the proletariat does not belong to thewage-laborer, it must belong to another humanbeing – the bourgeoisie ("Alienated Labor" 1086-1092). All of these ways in which the wage-laborers are alienated lead to the creation of bourgeois property, which must be abolished. The entire ideal of Communism can be summed up as "abolition of private property" ("Manifesto of the Communist Party" 1118). This does not necessarily mean any property personally acquired through one's own labor. Communists do not intend to abolish the type of appropriation of property through labor that is used for basic survival needs, and has no excess with which to force the labor of others. They only intend to abolish the bourgeois property (1119). Locke's argument for private property is more convincing than Marx's argument. For one, individuals have control over their own bodies because their minds control the operations and actions of their bodies. Physical labor is an action of the body, and therefore controlled by the individual. An individual's private property is that which they have control over and own, so if an individual puts their own physical labor into something, they are in turn putting their control into the object, and the object then becomes their private property. Also, Locke's idea that anybody has the right to gain as much property as they can is stronger than Marx's conflicting idea that people who have too much property, such as the bourgeoisie, should be stripped of their private property. Locke's idea makes more sense because those who put forth the most effort deserve the .





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