Lefties: Property is Theft - 1/6

In this three-part series, Vanessa Engle revisits the turbulent era when the extreme Left was a serious and significant political force that believed it could change the world for the better.

Weaving together interviews and archive footage, each film relives a different aspect of the Left in Britain during the 1970s and 1980s.

Part one: The fascinating story of a squatted street in the 1970s, where the residents lived by the nonconformist ideals of the time.

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[dancewomyn1]

What lunacy????

[JJaguar333]

Bearing in mind even the ownership of tools , foodstuffs and other material goods is an illusioj to some extent. andowbnership is theft by the banks and the capitalist class on the rest of society.

[bapyou]

@Tracywithafacey

Look: Buffoon: Get this straight: Hitler -- despite the name of his party -- was not a leftist. He was in bed with every major corporation in Germany as well as some American ones (such as IBM). Fascism is an extreme rightwing ideology which plays on nationalistic & nativist sentiments, much as American right-wingers today. (USA! USA!)

Read Franz Neuman's 'Behemoth.' Neuman, a German Jew who escaped Germany in the '30s, will set you straight about how "socialist" Hitler was.

[Tracywithafacey]

@bapyou Im pretty sure the most left wing people in the world have caused an awful lot more harm and death to society than right wingers. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Kim Jong Il... How Thatcher can be a fascist i do not know. "Fascists advocate: a state-directed, regulated economy that is dedicated to the nation" Margaret Thatcher deregulated, privatised and freed the economy of its inefficient state industries. She took control away from the state, and gave back liberty to the people

[Texfield91]

@JJaguar333 Then your house was stolen.....we the people will be by later to collect it.

[Texfield91]

Left wingers are the most bitter people imaginable.......

[JJaguar333]

Some goods and services. At the end of the day even in primitive societies, hunters still own their tools and means of existance to a certain extent, and in state capitalist or false marxist states like GDR, pewople still owned motor veichles ect. However land ownership is just unbalanced and a way fro the banks to turn us all into cash whores. It should all be held in common with people given a small plot for use, but strictly speaking unowned.

[Overtime123]

@JJaguar333 Does that extend to consumables? Do you believe that you can own an apple? In other words, are you against private property rights with respect to some goods and services or to all goods and services?

[JJaguar333]

Im a lefty, and i believe land ownership IS theft.

Capitalism is theft and slavery for the majority of us.

[JasonDamisch]

Property is theft unless it is YOUR property, in which case its ok. If I walk into a lefties house and steal their shit then all of a sudden its not ok. BTW, how did they get their stuff? From having the government steal it from me to give to them. But.... I got my stuff through the government allowing me to steal it from somebody else. And, all of the land upon which we stand was stolen from the Native Americans. Its all Karma really.