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[Arlo]
> that's only from a perspective that equates "property" with "freedom".
As I specifically said property is not freedom, that cannot be my perspective.One can be free as a capitalist (private property), a communalist (sharedproperty) or as a monk (no property).
[Arlo]
> Marx saw the end result...man would voluntarily participate in social and local communes aimed at bettering the conditions for all while allowing individuals to strive for their own personal meaning.

Why wait, the free market allows that result now.  What's stopping a real marxist from joining a commune in Vermont, a kibbutz in Israel or a collective farm in some marxist paradise. 
 
[Arlo]
Again, anyone who has read Marx knows ...Marxism is about freedom

Not true.  Count me among the thousands who have read Marx & don't think Marxism is about freedom, not to mention dangerously misguided.
Craig