Chapter II
'The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.' The most direct programmatic claim.
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From The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Communists summarize their theory in a single phrase -- abolition of private property -- meaning specifically bourgeois property based on the exploitation of wage labor, not all personal possessions.
Chapter II
Clarifies that communism does not abolish hard-won personal property, only bourgeois property which already exists for nine-tenths of population only as its negation.
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Responds to objection that abolishing property destroys individuality -- argues bourgeois property already destroys the individuality of the worker.
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