Abstract
AbstractThe idea of communism stretches back a long way in the history of western political theory: as far back as Plato, who forbade private property among the guardians in hisRepublic, hostility to private property being a – or, if we are later to follow Marx, the – sine qua non of communism. (“The theory of the communists,” in the words of Marx and Engels'sManifesto of the Communist Party(1848), “may be summed up in a single sentence: the abolition of private property.”)
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