Every time someone says they are against communism, because the government will come to take away their things I get they don't really understand what communism is about.
Communism isn't about communal ownership of everything. Personal things can be privately owned, yet the means of production is what would fall in communal ownership. What this means, is that you could own your car but the factory that produced it would be own by the workers or community.
Government ownership of the means of production is not the what communism seeks, but that the workers become the owners of the means of production. At the end of the day, governments as we think of today are not needed in a communist society.
While communism was created as a reactionary response to capitalism, how it should be implemented has changed as time has gone by. Free trade is seen as desirable, while the means of production remain in the ownership of the workers.
Most importantly, communism doesn't mean everyone earns the same. Every person will earn according to their contribution to society, with the means of production being what is owned by the community.
Capitalist propaganda has done quite a good job misrepresenting what communism stands for.
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