• ComradeEchidna [they/them, fae/faer]
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    2 years ago

    We did have a micro struggle session once here whether if even owning your own singular house was petit bourgeois (one poster saying the state or collective should own it)

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      182 years ago

      I think at a certain point of communism whether you “own” your home or whether it’s technically owned by the Housing committee with full rights devolved to you while you live there is irrelevant. The only real risk is of the collective going Home Owners Association on you because you keep a tin boat in the front yard or something.

      • ComradeEchidna [they/them, fae/faer]
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        2 years ago

        Pretty much what I said in the thread that under communism eventually you’d start to resolve the contradictions between renting and owning a house and hopefully end up with the positives of owning your house (lifetime security, being able to modify it) with the (few) positives of renting (not being responsible for unexpected repairs and being able to dispose of the housing if you want to move to another city etc).

    • Egon [they/them]
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      182 years ago

      one poster saying the state or collective should own it.

      Lmao some people on here are unreal. “Well in my imagined perfect succesful communist utopia, this is how things should be, so since you’re not doing that now, you’re a reactionairy”

    • flan [they/them]
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      122 years ago

      IIRC in Vietnam for example you purchase a lease for a house from the government that lasts like 50 years. That doesn’t sound so bad.