"Only in this way can the immense productive capacities of modern society be freed from the parasitic grip of the capitalist class and used to abolish poverty, inequality and war."--Damon, WSWS

This conflict [between capital and labor] can be resolved only through the expropriation of the [capitalist] oligarchy. The wealth hoarded by the billionaires must be seized and the major corporations, banks and industries placed under public ownership and democratic workers’ control.--A. Damon WSWS

The manufacture and deployment of nuclear weapons of war is an expression of the irrationality of competitive capitalism and the anarchic system of capitalist nation-states. The abolition of these weapons presupposes the abolition of capitalist private property and the capitalist mode of production.

"The fight against fascism cannot be separated from the struggle against capitalism and for socialism. The defense of democracy requires the expropriation of the financial oligarchy and the transformation of the corporations and banks into public utilities under democratic workers’ control."--WSWS

Economic productivity under capitalism is possible only insofar as private ownership of the means of economic production permits and limits cooperative labor on the scale of the individual enterprise.

Socialism is the free application of human will and intelligence in the cooperative formulation and implementation of a world-wide economic plan, unrestricted by the barriers erected by the private ownership and exploitation of the instruments, methods and materials of economic production.

The abolition of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) presupposes the abolition of capitalist private property in the conditions of economic production and the dissolution of the nation-state system.

"Politics must be adapted to the high development of the productive forces, [and] the paralyzing of these productive forces by the capitalist forms of property. The productive forces [under capitalism] cannot develop any longer." Trotsky 1938 'The Political Backwardness of American Workers'

The abolition of borders between nations and peoples presupposes the abolition of private ownership of the methods and materials employed in economic production, and the unfettered employment of human intelligence in the cooperative development and establishment of an international economic plan.

The abolition of war presupposes the abolition of private property in the means, methods, instruments and materials of economic production.

No short-term or long-term solution to the crisis that confronts humanity, the accelerating destruction of the economic productive forces of society, in military, political and economic warfare, is possible short of the world-wide abolition of capitalist private property.

Tariffs in a capitalist economy, a form of economic warfare, represent a destructive and reactionary assault by the private ownership of the conditions of economic production on the already developed productive forces of society.

4/ "The great owners formed associations for protection and they met to discuss ways to intimidate, to kill, to gas. And always they were in fear of a principal--three hundred thousand--if they ever move under a leader--the end."

3/ "The changing economy was ignored, plans for the change ignored; and only means to destroy revolt were considered, while the causes of revolt went on."

2/ "And that companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed."

1/ John Steinbeck, 'The Grapes of Wrath': "And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away."

Marx (1875): "from the fact that labor depends on nature it follows that the man who possesses no other property than his labor power must, in all conditions of [class] society and culture, be the slave of other men, who have made themselves the owners of the material conditions of labor."

Once the obstacle of capitalist private property is abolished, a socialist economic plan on a world basis would establish the conditions necessary to eliminate competitive wars between nation-states and the horrors of economic deprivation, and provide cooperative humanity with economic abundance.

The unhindered growth of the economic forces of society, the economic, scientific and cultural progress of humanity, then requires the expropriation of private property in the conditions of economic production and the cooperative implementation of a world-wide economic plan.

The class of competitive property owners, in the interest of the preservation of its property, then declares war on the already developed productive forces, principally but not only on the class of cooperative laborers.

Economic cooperation on the scale of single competitive enterprises increases productive forces until the time when the further development of these forces becomes incompatible with economic competition, the anarchy of production, rooted in private property.

Private property, which introduces competition into economic production, is a barrier that obstructs the progressive expansion of economically productive cooperation from the scale of the individual enterprise to the scale of a world-wide economic plan.

"Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things. In all these movements they bring to the front, as the leading question in each case, the property question, no matter what its degree of development at the time."-Marx/Engels

Marx's "theory explains [capitalist] crises by the contradiction between the social character of production (socialised by capitalism) and the private, individual mode of appropriation. To put it more briefly, [Marxism explains crises] by the anarchy of production."--Lenin, CW, vol. 2, p. 167

The crisis of capitalism, its preparations for world war, its economic inequality, its anti-immigrant nationalism, its destruction of the environment, its ruination of education and health care, its private prisons and militarized police, is rooted in private property and the anarchy of production.

" The specter of a third socialist party, with a mass base, that advocates not merely free bus rides but also nationalizations and expropriations, haunts the corporate-financial oligarchy."--David North WSWS

The abolition of war is possible only on the basis of the world-wide abolition of private property in the conditions of economic production, which would result in the dissolution of the separate capitalist nation-states, and the international and cooperative implementation of a planned economy.

"The SEP advocates neither protectionism nor 'free trade,' but fights instead for social ownership of the productive forces, the elimination of national borders, and the creation of a planned, rationally-integrated global economy."-Principles

"The key industrial, financial, technological and natural resources must be taken out of the sphere of the capitalist market and private ownership, transferred to society and placed under the democratic supervision and control of the working class." SEP Principles

"All efforts to raise the living standards of the working class and address serious social problems run up against the barrier of private ownership of the means of production, the anarchy of the capitalist market, [and] the economic imperatives of the profit system."-SEP Statement of Principles