Public Use and Private Property

As has been previously proposed, the abolition of private property can be analyzed as the elimination of exclusive use. Hence, a familiar example of a Socialist society is a public library, which, thus, exhibits one of the advantages of that system over Capitalism--more efficient disposition of resources. For, in a public library, unlike in a private collection, a wanted book will not linger unread on a shelf. Likewise, where there is equal access to resources, the sometimes grotesque contemporaneity of excess and deficiency in a society, e. g. wasting food and hunger, multiple residences and homelessness, etc., can be, first, recognized as a problem, and, second, rectified. So, the example of the public library is available to the Socialist as part of a Public Use vs. Private Property argument against Capitalism.