Ep 23 - Private Property Is Bad!

Christians on the Left are pretty good at being suspicious of things like the state or big business. After all, Jesus got killed by an empire and big businesses aren't exactly known for their sacrificial values. In this suspicion though, a lot of Christians (and even a lot of newly minted Leftists in the wake of Bernie Sanders) don't think very much about the problem of private property itself, which has been one of the grounding problems for radical leftists since Marx, Proudhon, Bakunin, and other Lefty saints. In this episode Matt and Dean give some quick overviews of anarchist and Marxist problems with private property and try to offer examples of where those problems have manifested today. But it's not just Lefty saints that have a problem with private property--the Christian tradition, too, was around before capitalism, and with its own suspicion of private property it can help build a world after capitalism, too.