Property and Socialism

Ownership is an abstract relation between two inert entities. Hence, even the terms of the collectivization of property are inert, and that fusion is no more than an abstract goal, no matter how derived. Furthermore, as a correction of dehumanizing exploitation it is a mere means to some better condition. Now, the collectivization of property is derived from the concrete dynamic collectivization of the operation of the means of production, according to the Marxist analysis. Furthermore, that collectivization corrects a dimension of dehumanization that even Smith recognizes--social fragmentation. Accordingly, the development of the We, which is essentially Agency, is the essential concrete dynamic feature of Socialism, which, as an improvement of preceding conditions, can therefore be specified as Ethical Socialism. Thus, either Scientific Socialism is essentially an inert abstract scheme, or else it is implicitly Ethical Socialism, to which it is a means.