Full Idea
The right to private property is the self-interested right to dispose of one's own fortune, independently of society, and is the basis of civil society. It makes men see in others not the realisation of his own freedom, but the barrier to it.
Gist of Idea
Private property is self-interested freedom, rather than freedom through community
Source
Karl Marx (On the Jewish Question [1844], Vol 3: 135), quoted by Peter Gibson - Natural Ideas: a naturalist system of philosophy
A Reaction
The idea that freedom is a communal matter is probably Hegel's main legacy to Marx.
Book Reference
Edwards,J/Leiter,B: 'Marx' [Routledge 2025], p.198
Related Idea
Idea 21779 People assume they are free, but the options available are not under their control [Hegel]