 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
Karl Marx, owing to a purely intellectual error, imagined that if private property were abolished economic injustice would cease. He made this mistake because he did not realize that property is only one form of power, and that to abolish private property while concentrating power in the hands of a minority not only ensures an intolerable tyranny, but also must lead to the grossest economic injustice.
Source: What is Freedom? 1952
Reprinted in: Fact and Fiction, 1961
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