Property is just an opinion, programmed into certain number of human
brains. It's soft, and can be modified or erased. There is no brain area
dedicated for private property (witness human societies without it.)
Using this ephemeral phenomenon to understand underlying dynamics is
unproductive. Observers from Mars cannot detect property, as they cannot
detect human gods. But they can detect lifecycles, illnesses, buildings,
murders, poverty, luxury and such. The worse sleigh of hand done to
communism was to divert focus to this single soft aspect (remotely
similar to POTUS pussy grabbing idiocy.)
The basic similarity between USSR and EU is the willingness of large
number of people, *not* based on religion, leaders, or tribal/national
identity, to pitch in for the better common* future. Both events are
unique in the history in this regard.
* note the word root
How is the EU seizing control of the means of production? How is the EU
delegitimising the ownership of private property by private citizens? When
last I checked, it was still possible to establish for-profit businesses in the
EU, and it was still possible for individual EU citizens to purchase goods from
Ka De We. To say that the EU model incorporates elements of socialism is one
thing, to say that it is 'communism' is a bridge too far.
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